Research Article
Malnutrition: The Importance of Identification, Documentation, and Coding in the Acute Care Setting
Table 3
Medical history audit of patients assessed as malnourished.
| | Date | Number of patient separations | Number of patients coded as malnourished (%) | Mean age of patients coded as malnourished (range) | Number of malnourished patients seen by a dietitian (%) | Number of patients seen by a dietitian for any condition (excluding malnutrition) |
| | June 2011 | 1963 | 19 (0.9) | 69.1 ± 18.2 (30–93) | 14 (74) | 210/1963 (10.6%) | | March 2012 | 2006 | 76 (3.8) | 70.1 ± 14.3 (25–94) | 64 (84) | 154/2006 (7.7%) | | Sept 2012 | 1906 | 103 (5.4) | 71.2 ± 17.1 (18–99) | 89 (86) | 94/1906 (4.9%) | | June 2013 | 1876 | 82 (4.4) | 66.4 ± 19.9 (18–96) | 73 (89) | 95/1876 (5.1%) |
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