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National Standard on Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment
CAN/HSO 5066:2021 - Malnutrition Prevention, Detection, and Treatment
A National Standard of Canada
This standard provides acute care organizations with best practices to prevent, detect, and treat malnutrition in adult and pediatric inpatients. The development of this standard was led by Canadian Malnutrition Task Force, who worked with the Health Standards Organization (HSO) Working Group and Technical Committee. This standard addresses processes and protocols to:
- Identify patients at risk of malnutrition at admission
- Diagnose malnutrition
- Implement an integrated nutrition care plan to prevent and treat malnutrition
- Provide nutritious and culturally acceptable food and reduce barriers to food intake for patients
- Monitor nutrition intake and nutrition status changes for patients
- Provide treatment for malnourished patients throughout their hospital stay
- Facilitate organizational changes to implement and sustain improved nutrition management
- Focus on nutrition care in the discharge plan when patients are transferred to other care and community settings
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