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Changes in health care from inpatient to outpatient care have resulted in a decreased hospital census. In the past several years our average patient census has decreased from the 700s to less than 200. Health care administrators may associate this trend with a decreased need for dietitians and diet technicians. As part of a manpower review, patient acuity was compared to average length of stay (LOS)...
To date, there are limited published validation studies of the NSI. The original study found poor predictability of nutritional risk when the Determine Checklist was correlated with objective measures (biochemical, anthropometric and clinical measures) of nutritional status. There was a limited association of a high Determine score with low hemoglobin and elevated glucose levels, a stronger association...