PMID: 2110584May 1, 1990Paper

Managing inpatient clinical nutrition services: a comprehensive program assures accountability and success

Journal of the American Dietetic Association
D B Ford, M M Fairchild

Abstract

A major challenge facing clinical dietitians today is justifying inpatient clinical nutrition services. To meet this challenge, a comprehensive program for the delivery and management of clinical nutrition services was developed at Yale-New Haven Hospital. It is based on seven nutritional risk factors--age, diagnosis/treatment, diet, metabolic or mechanical problems, significant lab values, pertinent medications, and weight for height. These risk factors are used to categorize patients into one of seven classifications. In essence, this classification system is the screening tool used to provide the foundation for standards of practice and nutrition assessment and intervention. The inherent advantage of such a program is that it identifies patients at high nutritional risk, regardless of wide variations in patient population or diagnosis. It also provides standardized criteria for evaluating quality of care, patient acuity, and productivity and staffing. Clinical nutrition services can then be measured for both quality and quantity. Because protein-calorie malnutrition poses a serious threat to cost containment and quality patient care, this type of program can appeal to hospital administrators, physicians, and site visitors al...Continue Reading

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