Publisher's Synopsis
Since its founding, ASPEN has focused its strategic efforts on reducing the incidence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients. Improve Patient Outcomes provides you and your nutrition care team with resources and tools to identify, document, code, and treat malnutrition from admission through discharge. The guide will help you implement an optimal nutrition care plan, measure the quality of your team's efforts, and improve the value to your patient.Features of this guide include:Care pathways for adult and paediatric patients. Tools to use in screening, assessment and correction of adult and pediatric malnutrition. Methods to support Joint Commission recommendations addressing malnutrition. Cut-off parameters to define severity and monitor recovery. Pocket card-sized text to copy and cut for your use at the bedside. Reprints of important articles on malnutrition. Comparison of ICD-9 and ICD-10 malnutrition diagnostic codes.
