Nutritional Intake And The Leftover Of Patients In General Hospital And Dr. Tajuddin Chalid Hospital Of Makassar

Outcomes indicator on food service in hospitals include nutritional intake and food that is not spent on patient. The hospital provides food to meet the nutritional needs of patients hospitalized. The Ministry of Health sets of minimum food service indicator is 268804 20 of the food that is not spent. This study was conducted to determine the nutritional intake and leftovers of patients in Dr. Tadjuddin Chalid Hospital and General Hospital of Makassar. The study is designed with a descriptive approaches with a number of subjects were 35 patients in Class III and received regular food. Data intake of nutrition and leftovers collected from interviews using the patient satisfaction questionnaire. The nutritional value of food were analyzed manually using DKBM. The results of this study obtained both hospitals has been serving quality food with good nutrition with energy 2632.1 kilocalories protein 73.58 grams 67.84 grams of fat and 419 grams of carbohydrates each day. Intake of nutrients in patients reached 81.1 and the rest of the food was not spent 19.9. Based on a sample comparison test between the standard and the intake of nutrition and leftovers obtained by p-value 000. Both hospitals have provided food service and achieving minimum standards as provided herein for the intake of nutrition and leftovers. It is advisable to provide nutrition education to patients that want to spend their food and modify processing and variety of foodstuffs.