Signs/Symptoms
Initial red flags that a patient may have malnutrition.
What is Unintentional weight loss, poor appetite, and/or poor intake?
Methods to assess a patient's energy intake.
What is a dietary recall or calorie count?
This member of the healthcare team is trained to conduct Nutrition-Focused Physical Exams.
What is a Registered Dietitian?
A product, typically in the form of a beverage, provided to patients to increase calorie and protein intake.
What is an oral nutrition supplement?
Patients with ______ have increased costs of patient care.
What is malnutrition?
The BMI at which classifies underweight.
What is <18.5?
Temples, clavicles, shoulders, interosseous muscle, scapula, thigh, calf are areas you would find ____
What is muscle wasting?
This is the ICD-10 code for severe protein-calorie malnutrition.
What is E43?
A method of feeding that is indicated when a patient is unable to consume adequate nutrition PO.
What is enteral nutrition?
____% of Malnutrition diagnoses are among elderly adults are.
What is 60%?
The nutritional-related contributors to a patient reporting weakness and fatigue with ADLs.
What is muscle loss?
Orbital, buccal, triceps, ribs are areas of the body you would find _____
What is fat loss?
Malnutrition is considered a _______, impacting hospital level of care and length of stay.
What is a major comorbid condition (MCC)?
The type of diet recommended for a 90 y/o patient with malnutrition.
What is diet liberalization?
Malnourished patients have ____ times longer hospital stays than patients without malnutrition.
What is 1.9?
This lab is a poor biochemical marker for nutritional status.
What is low albumin?
_____ can mask weight loss and can make it appear as though the patient has gained weight.
What is edema?
Malnutrition diagnosis must be documented here in order to be billed.
What is the problem list?
A result of providing rapid initiation of nutrition to a malnourished patient.
What is refeeding syndrome?
The prognosis of a patient with malnutrition.
What is a poor prognosis and increased risk of mortality?
The validated screening tool to assess malnutrition that is used at Saint Francis Hospital.
What is the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST)?
The abdomen, legs, arms, etc. are examples of places on the body to look for signs of ____
What is fluid retention?
A patient must meet at least ___ out of these 6 criteria to be diagnosed with malnutrition.
What is 2?
This micronutrient should be supplemented for malnourished patients to prevent refeeding syndrome.
What is thiamin?
Malnourished patients are ____ times per more likely to have an in-hospital death.
What is 3.4?