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Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2021 sees highest attendees to date!

More than 2300 delegates attended our webinars from Oct 4-8th 2021, making CMAW 2021, Championing Malnutrition Care,  the most successful yet! A total of 16 presenters illuminated the latest evidence & strategies to address malnutrition in adults and pediatrics. #CMAW21 Webinar recordings are free for the month of October.

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Come Join Us! Primary Care Malnutrition Collaborative

The goal of this Malnutrition Collaborative is to bring together primary care health care professionals from across Canada to implement nutrition screening and other malnutrition care activities within practice settings.  By working together, we can support each other’s work, learn from each other and take important steps in making malnutrition …

Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week

Championing Malnutrition Care

Oct. 4-8, 2021 -  Malnutrition Awareness Week™ was established in an effort to educate healthcare professionals to identify and treat for malnutrition earlier, educate consumers/patients on the importance of discussing their nutrition status with healthcare professionals, and to increase awareness of nutrition’s role on patient recovery.

Get ready! Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week (CMAW) 2021!

October 4-8, 2021

The theme for Canadian Malnutrition Awareness week 2021 is “Championing Malnutrition Care". 

National Standard on Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment

Just released!

OTTAWA – Sept. 16, 2021 Health Standards Organization (HSO) and the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF), a standing committee of the Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS), are proud to officially release the new Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment standard (CAN/HSO 5066:2021), which is a National Standard of Canada.

Reconnaître et combattre la malnutrition

Grand Rounds

Le Service de nutrition clinique du CHUM en collaboration avec le Groupe de travail canadien sur la malnutrition vous invite à assister au webinaire Reconnaître et combattre la malnutrition présenté par la Dre Johane P. Allard le 23 septembre prochain de 12 h à 13 h en ligne.

CMTF research calls for the Implementation of a uniform Malnutrition Clinical Care Pathway in Pediatric Hospitals

Canadian Nationwide Survey on Pediatric Malnutrition Management in Tertiary Hospitals

The Pediatric CMTF Working Group conducted a survey including 15 tertiary pediatric hospitals across Canada. Results show that routine nutritional screening upon hospital admission has not been widely adopted and that standardized protocols for assessment and management of malnutrition in hospital and after discharge is lacking. For full online article visit https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/8/2635

CMTF’s Heather Keller joins Technical Committee for National Long Term Care Standard!

CMTF and CNS would like to congratulate Heather Keller for her appointment to the National Long-Term Care (LTC) Service Standards Technical Committee.

Heather who is the Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging at the University of Waterloo will support the development of the National LTC Services Standard starting in June 2021.  For more information about the standard and the committee, visit https://longtermcarestandards.ca/.

New publication on Food Services practices to prevent malnutrition available online

Canadian Hospital Food Service Practices to Prevent Malnutrition, Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, 21 July 2021.

In this recent publication, Janice Sorensen, co chair of CMTFs Food in HealthCare Working Group, and co-authors have  illuminated gaps in current hospital food service practices compared to evidence based practices. Their work has highlighted the need for standardized patient centred food service approaches.

For the full online article visit: https://dcjournal.ca/doi/full/10.3148/cjdpr-2021-013

Nutrition Screening in Primary and Community Care Survey

Professor Heather Keller (University of Waterloo), Marg Alfieri (Primary Care Dietitians Association) and the Primary Care working group of the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force are conducting a survey to determine what models of nutrition screening have been implemented in primary and community care, the reach of these efforts …