title: American Dietetic Association's Standardized Nutrition Language: Project logic model and current status.
abstract: Standardized terminology and digital sources of evidence are essential for evidence-based practice. Dieticians desire concise and consistent documentation of nutrition diagnoses, interventions and outcomes that will be fit for electronic health records. Building on more than 5 years of work to generate the Nutrition Care Process and Model as a road map to quality nutrition care and outcomes, and recognizing existing standardized languages serving other health professions, a task force of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) has begun to develop and disseminate standardized nutrition language. This paper will describe the group's working logic model, the Nutrition Care Process, and the current status of the nutrition language with comparisons to nursing process and terminology.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY 10032, USA. melinda.jenkins@gmail.com
authors.forename: Melinda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: Pam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Charney
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Escott-Stump
mesh_terms: D004046:Dietetics; D007802:Language; D008128:Logic; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012015:Reference Standards; D012952:Societies; D012984:Software