Percent Meal Intake

Written by admin@pcpierce.com on July 12, 2011. Posted in Clinical

Nutrition and nursing professionals rely on food intake reports to identify residents who are at risk and to plan and evaluate nutrition interventions, and an assessment of food intake (ie, whether a resident is eating less than 75% of most meals) is not only useful for patient management but is also required for completion of the Minimum Data Set.

It is critical to have a reliable method for tracking food intake in hospitals and nursing homes and none of the commonly used assessment methods provide conclusively accurate estimates of food intake (J Am Diet Assoc. 2003;103:873-877).

The Calculating Percent Meal Intake For Patients tool has been developed to increase accuracy and to simplify the process. Free, no fee, just use.

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