| dc.description.abstract | Melhor em Casa program is a service of basic attention to health, home care, which performs the enteral nutrition therapy, with the purpose of improving or maintaining the nutritional status of patients by providing nutritional, energy be orally, probes or ostomias. There is a concern about the nutritional efficacy associated with the proposed program, which aims to treat malnutrition and reduce infectious frames to reduce the rates of complications and internees. So the objective of this work was to relate the nutritional status to the emergence of infectious complications in adult patients the Best program in the House of the municipality of Mineiros (GO). For this we conducted a cross-sectional study of descriptive and analytical character, developed through the collection of data previously reported by doctors and dietitians in medical records of adult patients and the elderly, between 18 and 80 years of both sexes, using diet s in use of supplemental enteral diet, better home program, the municipality of Mineiros, Goiás State, between July 2015 and July 2017. A total of 174 individuals were served by the program, these 58 attended the inclusion and exclusion criteria established in the study. Malnutrition was correlated positively with the infections present in individuals, moreover, the deaths found were correlated with the infection, and the absolute frequency of the use of antibiotic therapy was higher in individuals with add nutritional. However the study allows you to demonstrate that the program better at home is part of an important measure geared towards public health, however one should intensify monitoring and/or nutritional care of patients, as this will ensure greater success in well-being and survival of individuals served by the program. | en |
