ISO/CD 25815

Nutrition - Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of Malnutrition (undernutrition) in Hospitals

Scope

This document provides hospitals with best practices to prevent, detect, and treat malnutrition in adult and pediatric inpatients.
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 patients with malnutrition throughout their hospital stay
— Facilitate organizational changes to implement and sustain improved nutrition care
— Focus on nutrition care in the discharge plan when patients are transferred to other care and community settings
In this standard hospitals are referred to as “the organization”.