{"id":7578,"date":"2025-06-28T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/investing-in-patients-nutrition-nutrition-risk-screening-in-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:35","slug":"investing-in-patients-nutrition-nutrition-risk-screening-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/investing-in-patients-nutrition-nutrition-risk-screening-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in patients\u2019 nutrition: nutrition risk screening in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Investing in patients\u2019 nutrition: nutrition risk screening in hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1687' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1687\/419' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objective: This paper explores the current state of knowledge and evidence for investing in the nutrition screening of patients in hospital.<br \/>\nSetting: Hospitals.<br \/>\nSubjects: Hospital patients; nursing care.&nbsp;<br \/>\nPrimary argument: Nutrition screening of hospital patients is widely supported in evidence\u2011based guidelines because poor nutritional status has a negative impact, increasing patients\u2019 morbidity, mortality and length of hospital stay. Screening is often undertaken by nurses as part of the patient admission process and in conjunction with other health risk screening tools, although the extent of routine nutrition screening in Australian hospitals is unclear. Once a patient is screened and subsequently assessed and diagnosed with malnutrition and treatment is commenced, there is a lack of high quality evidence about the effect of this treatment on longer term patient outcomes. This has most likely restrained nursing decisions about investing nursing resources in routine nutrition screening of all targeted patients.<br \/>\nConclusion: Routine screening of hospital patients for nutrition risk early in their admission is obligatory according to best evidence, though not universal in Australian hospitals. Further high quality research (eg., randomised trial) is warranted to determine the consequences of screening which appear to include positive impact of nutritional interventions upon undernourished\/malnourished patients. If this data were available, administrators may recognise both economic and patient\u2011centred benefits of investing in systematic nutrition screening.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Robyn Cant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Australia, evidence translation, hospitalisation, malnutrition screening, malnutrition, nursing<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Investing in patients\u2019 nutrition: nutrition risk screening in hospital Original Article Link: Read Original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[3975,4861,4862,620,4863,3874],"class_list":["post-7578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-australia","tag-evidence-translation","tag-hospitalisation","tag-malnutrition","tag-malnutrition-screening","tag-nursing","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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