Phase 1 implementation of nutrition screening in a Dublin acute teaching hospital
| dc.contributor.author | Nutrition Screening Steering Group | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-18T12:02:39Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-18T12:02:39Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/575049 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Nutrition Screening Week results from 2010 and 2011 indicated that one in three to four patients admitted to Irish Hospitals are at risk of disease-related malnutrition, 74-75% of whom are at high risk1. Nutrition screening tools are used to screen for malnutrition risk. One such tool, the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)2 is a practical, easy to use tool that often takes ≤5 minutes to complete. MUST has been validated across care settings and across patient populations, and has been recommended for use in Irish Hospitals by the Department of Health and Children as part of standard care3. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK has demonstrated significant financial savings associated with the use of routine nutrition screening, in part due to reduced length of hospital stay4. The Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (IrSPEN) has also demonstrated this5 | |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Nutrition Screening Steering Group | en |
| dc.subject | NUTRITION | en |
| dc.subject | MALNUTRITION | en |
| dc.subject | SCREENING | en |
| dc.title | Phase 1 implementation of nutrition screening in a Dublin acute teaching hospital | en |
| dc.type | Conference Poster | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Beaumont Hospital | en |
| dc.description.funding | No funding | en |
| dc.description.province | Leinster | en |
| dc.description.peer-review | peer-review | en |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-27T05:30:31Z | |
| html.description.abstract | Nutrition Screening Week results from 2010 and 2011 indicated that one in three to four patients admitted to Irish Hospitals are at risk of disease-related malnutrition, 74-75% of whom are at high risk1. Nutrition screening tools are used to screen for malnutrition risk. One such tool, the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)2 is a practical, easy to use tool that often takes ≤5 minutes to complete. MUST has been validated across care settings and across patient populations, and has been recommended for use in Irish Hospitals by the Department of Health and Children as part of standard care3. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK has demonstrated significant financial savings associated with the use of routine nutrition screening, in part due to reduced length of hospital stay4. The Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (IrSPEN) has also demonstrated this5 |
