Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Promotes Tool to Help Diagnose Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults
Many of these patients went undiagnosed because health care providers had no universally accepted tool to check, until now.
- Many of these patients went undiagnosed because health care providers had no universally accepted tool to check, until now.
- A malnutrition tool, referred to as AAIM, can help registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) accurately diagnose malnutrition, according to two scientific papers from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Armed with this tool and the accurate assessment of malnutrition, RDNs can provide medical nutrition therapy to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.
- Details about the AAIM tool can be found in the paper Predictive validity of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition indicators (AAIM) to diagnose malnutrition tool in hospitalized adults: a cohort study , now in press in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.