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Using hospital nutrition care to improve patient clinical outcomes and reduce costs, the identified measured gaps in malnutrition care demonstrated the need for creative innovations, which translated into learning how to change indicators for malnutrition standards of care.
- Sharon M. McCauley, Albert Barrocas, Ainsley Malone
- 2019
Apr 16, 2017 · Nutrition plays a key role in the disease process; individuals who are malnourished have worse outcomes than those who are well nourished. As members of healthcare teams, NPs have a significant role in facilitating timely and appropriate nutrition assessment and therapies to positively affect clinical outcomes.
May 16, 2019 · Nutritional status serves as an independent predictor of hospital morbidity and mortality. There is an ensuing academic debate concerning the role and magnitude of nutrition in modifying health outcomes and the strategies that are to be employed to ensure nutritional adequacy.
- Donnette Wright
- 2019
Dec 10, 2020 · A major limitation in many primary health-care systems is the lack of training of health professionals for dietary assessments, dietary counselling and the prevention and treatment of malnutrition, and its related diseases. 46, 47 All health-care professionals, including nutritionists, nurses, midwives and community health workers, need to be ...
- Christian Kraef, Benjamin Wood, Peter von Philipsborn, Sudhvir Singh, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Per...
- 2020
Sep 1, 2013 · Numerous studies, predominantly in patients 65 years of age and older with or at risk for malnutrition, have shown the potential of specific nutrition interventions to substantially reduce complication rates, length of hospital stay, readmission rates, cost of care, and, in some studies, mortality. 5,26-36 Nutrition intervention strategies ...
- Kelly A. Tappenden, Beth Quatrara, Melissa L. Parkhurst, Ainsley M. Malone, Gary Fanjiang, Thomas R....
- 2013
Most health care professionals are not adequately trained to address diet and nutrition-related issues with their patients, thus missing important opportunities to ameliorate chronic diseases and improve outcomes in acute illness.
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Simply defined, malnutrition is unbalanced or inadequate nutrition, (Dictionary.com) which may consist of either over or under nutrition. For the purpose of this white paper, NACNS’s Malnutrition Task Force primarily focused on malnutrition associated with under nutrition in the hospitalized adult.
