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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 …

Now launched! Primary & Community Care Malnutrition Toolkit

This toolkit was created for Registered Dietitians working in primary care, community, and home care. The toolkit was designed by Dietitians for Dietitians to provide hands on tools to help you screen, assess and treat malnutrition within your practice setting.

Thanks for making CMAW a Huge Success!

The 6th annual Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week™ (CMAW) took place from October 5 - 9, 2020 and focused on Moving from AWARENESS to ACTION.  Thanks to the many individuals, teams and groups who came out by the 100s to participate in webinars, access resources, participate in awareness raising, and …

Nutrition Care Pathways Launched!

As part of our celebration of Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week (CMAW) that is taking place from October 5 to 9, we are excited to launch new evidence and consensus-based Nutrition Care Pathways.