ISO/WD 25815.2

Nutrition — Malnutrition Prevention, Detection, and Treatment

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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”.