Nutrition-Focused Quality Improvement Programs in Pediatric Care
Amy R. Sharn, Wendy Phillips, John T. Stutts, Mary Kaminski, Amy Shepps, Mary Beth Arensberg · 2024
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Description
Amy Sharn and co-authors offer a 2024 perspective on nutrition care for children in hospitals. Good nutrition drives child growth, yet illness and treatment often lead to poor nutrition. Food insecurity at home can make the risk worse. Programs that track and improve nutrition care have worked well for adults, but child use is less known.
The piece maps United States policy frames that bear on child nutrition and food access. It shows how such programs can link hospital care with discharge plans and clinic follow-up. Steps run from screening to action and hand-off. The authors list chances to cut return visits and readmissions through better nutrition steps. The piece is a call to extend a proven model to child care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amy R. Sharn, Wendy Phillips, John T. Stutts, Mary Kaminski, Amy Shepps, Mary Beth Arensberg |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |