[Aiming for liaison nutrition support team].
Due to induction of DPC and shortening of average hospitalization, some of the patients of Nutrition Support Team (NST) were discharged without a nutritional improvement. In other words, a medical treatment of the patients has to be stopped. To solve this dilemma, we need to work on building of liaison NST. In 2008, we served 87 NST patients. As for the average hospitalization, it was a significantly prolonged 56-day in comparison with a 13-day of hospitalization as a whole. We confirmed that 12% of the discharged cases and 68% of hospital transfers were without a nutritional improvement. We offer a NST patient information sheet which includes the NST discharge summary and NST information sheet for a smooth discharge transition. We opened an NST outpatient department to make a nutritional assessment, deglutition assessment and discharge summary.
Oeda
Yoshio
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Dept. of Nutrition Support Team, Chiba Kaihin Municipal Hospital.
D019058:Community Networks; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010348:Patient Care Team