Expert standard nutrition management

Eating and drinking are basic human needs and therefore play a central role in health and well-being. Sick and care-dependent people are often unable to feed themselves adequately and therefore require special support. If adequate support is not provided, there is a risk of malnutrition. (...) The consequences of malnutrition often result in very costly and lengthy treatment and nursing care. (From the preamble of the expert standard)

Sick and elderly people in particular need the right support and environmental design to ensure that they receive the nutrition they need. Interdisciplinary cooperation in the clinic with the involvement of caregivers is important here.

A suitable range of food should be provided, taking particular risk factors into account. Clinical nutrition is divided into normal oral nutrition, enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition.

In these times of cost savings, it is important to take preventive action and avoid the dangers and complications of malnutrition by recording and assessing nutritional status at an early stage. This counteracts nutrition-related health problems.

Coding the diagnosis and the nutritional therapy intervention ensures that the treatment case is reflected in the DRG system and thus creates the prerequisite for future remuneration.