Patients who, during admission, begin to use enteral nutrition (EN) and do not recover adequate oral intake need proper planning prior to discharge. The present study is a descriptive analysis of patients discharged with EN from our hospital in 2018. In all, the study included 141 patients (50.3% male) with an average age of 76.18 ± 14 years with the most frequent reasons for enteral support being neurological disease (71.3%) and ear, nose, and throat (ENT) and maxillofacial surgery (17.02%) (others accounted for 11.68%). In these two groups, differences were observed in both the average age (77 vs. 70.5 years) and sex of patients-mostly women (58%) in the first group and men (70%) in the second. Overall, the access routes used were nasogastric tube (76.4%), and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (18.4%); 67.1% of the episodes ended by 30 June, 60.6% of patients died (47% of neurological patients), and 39.3% patients recovered function of the oral passage (85% of surgical/head and neck tumor). The duration of support was as follows: 1-3 months, 32%; 6-12 months, 26.9%; more than 12 months, 18.5%. This indicated some frequent and clearly differentiated profiles in the patients studied, which may contribute to better care and support in order to maintain long-term treatment.

Studies have shown the impact of morphological knowledge on grammatical awareness and reading achievement (Carlisle, 1995; Marinellie and Kneile, 2012). There are factors, such as low productivity and opacity, which make derived words difficult to understand. Those and the deep structure of opaque derived words need further investigation (Gayatri, 2013;Serrano-Dolader, 2006). The goal of this study is to develop a scale of opacity along a continuum based on the number of changes to the lemma when the suffix is applied. Each of these changes was measured over a corpus of 550 derived words with productive Spanish suffixes (DRAE, 2001). 130 native Spanish high-school students and a small group of advanced non-native college students of Spanish were tested on the scale. Results reveal the usefulness of the scale to assess processing and reading difficulties in Spanish. Validation results indicate that all participants react in a similar way when facing basic morphological decisions.