Cost containment through nutrition intervention.
As health care cost analysts and administrators look for ways to maximize reimbursement revenues and lower operating costs without compromising the quality of patient care, reductions in nutrition services are often targeted. However, improved or expanded nutrition services can actually help cut hospital costs or increase revenues if they are targeted to patients at risk of malnutrition, applied early in the hospital course, and their benefits are appropriately documented.
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Scientific and Medical Affairs, Clintec Nutrition Company, Deerfield, IL 60015-0760, USA.
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D003363:Cost Control; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D018529:Nutritional Support; D011787:Quality of Health Care