Resources

• Leveraging Inpatient Malnutrition Care to Address Health Disparities

  Malnutrition is a complex and burdensome condition that is often connected to social determinants of health—including food insecurity—that can widen disparities in health outcomes.


• How a Malnutrition Quality Improvement Initiative Furthers Malnutrition Measurement and Care: Results From a Hospital Learning Collaborative

  In this MQII study, malnourished patients with nutrition care plans had a 24% relative risk reduction for 30-day readmissions compared with those without care plans.


• Conference Report: Leveraging the Global Malnutrition Composite Score for Quality Improvement, Health Equity, and Better Patient Outcomes

  OBM Geriatrics - Special Issue: Malnutrition, Frailty and Quality of Life in Older Adults


• Malnutrition A Hidden Epidemic in Older Adults

  Malnutrition in older adults is not so obvious. This population is particularly at risk, often from chronic conditions that leave them vulnerable to malnutrition.


• Malnutrition Diagnoses and Associated Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients: United States, 2018

  ASPEN has been tracking rates of coded malnutrition diagnoses in hospitalized patients and associated outcomes over time using AHRQ data. Watch this short ASPEN video which reviews the latest key findings from the recently published study.


• Understanding the Impact of Malnutrition

  Dig deeper into why malnourished hospitalized patients are associated with higher costs, longer stays and increased mortality.


• Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center Drives Margin and Mission Through Better Nutrition

  See how Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center increased malnutrition diagnosis rates, improved nutrition care and captured additional revenue with Junum.


• McLeod Health: Measuring the Impact of Malnutrition

  McLeod Health makes the case for improvement through a feasibility assessment with Junum.


• Case Study: Midland Memorial Hospital's Success Story

  Read how Midland Memorial Hospital (TX) revolutionized their malnutrition identification and reimbursement processes by more than doubling their diagnosis rate with Junum.


• Clinical Nutrition Research and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of the ASPEN COVID-19 Task Force on Nutrition Research

  Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, November 2020


• Overcoming Challenges to Enteral Nutrition Delivery in Critical Care

  Current Opinion in Critical Care, December 2020


• Nutritional Risk Screening Tools for Older Adults with COVID-19: A Systematic Review

  PubMed Central, September 2020


• Diagnosing Malnutrition Predicts Outcomes in the ICU

  Hear from Dr. David Seres as he shares how severe malnutrition has been shown to be associated with significant increases in ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay and mortality in patients admitted to ICUs.


• Documentation Key to Avoiding Denials

  Junum helps physicians find and easily pull in the RD's assessment of characteristics of malnutrition to support accurate coding.


• Lessons Learned in Nutrition Therapy in Patients with Severe COVID‐19

  Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, August 2020


• Junum Overview

  Learn about our EHR-friendly tools to revolutionize nutrition care in hospitals


• NorCal HIMSS ePatient Summit 2020

  How advances in Nutrition IT break down care silos and improve patient outcomes


• A Global Deficiency of Nutrition Education

  The Lancet, September 01, 2019


• Nutrition is a 'Blind Spot' in Patient Care

  Fierce Healthcare, Dec 16, 2019


• TalkTen Tuesday Podcast: Going Beyond CCs and MCCs

  Hear from our founder, Molly Hegarty, MS RD, about the impact to hospital revenue when a malnutrition diagnosis is not documented appropriately.

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