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Article: Weight loss prevention strategies: what is your facility's score? preventing unintended weight loss in residents requires a multidisciplinary approach. (Feature Article).
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- Nursing Homes
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- June 1, 2003
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Preventing weight loss and malnutrition--and the occurrence of pressure ulcers that these can contribute to--is a hot topic for long-term care facilities. As a result, survey citations, civil lawsuits, and Medicare fraud prosecutions related to nutrition have become routine risk-management issues. Facilities across the country, however, have implemented successful strategies for managing nutrition, and we have incorporated their "best practices" into a scorecard (Figure). Although this scorecard has not been scientifically tested, facilities might find it useful in assessing and improving their nutritional programs, as well as giving them new ideas.
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