Showing posts with label nutritional care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutritional care. Show all posts

Monday, 26 January 2015

Nutritional assessment in elderly care

"We believe that improved patient outcomes and significant savings to the trust can be achieved, not only by ensuring that every patient has a MUST score documented, but that it is calculated correctly and the appropriate interventions are implemented."

Nutritional assessment in elderly care: a MUST!
M Frank, A Sivagnanaratnam, J Bernstein
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u204810.w2031

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Monday, 10 December 2012

Malnutrition matters: meeting quality standards in nutritional care


"This Toolkit will assist commissioners and providers to deliver high quality nutritional care across all care settings and meet national nutritional quality targets including those of the Care Quality Commission."

Malnutrition matters: meeting quality standards in nutritional care
A Brotherton, N Simmonds, M Stroud
British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
November 2012

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