Best Practice for Malnutrtion Query

gspataforegspatafore
in Clinical & Coding
Our CMO asked that I look for best practice for malnutrition queries. Our dieticians post malnutrition queries with their diagnosis listed in the body of the query along with their nutritional assessment as clinical indicators. The provider is then asked to choose from a list of diagnosis which includes the dieticians diagnosis as well as other degrees of malnutrition and "other" "unknown". Does anyone else have any best practice for these types of queries?

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  • katysuegood@gmail.comkatysuegood@gmail.com

    I cant speak for 'best practice' but we do the same when we query for MALN. We include the dieticians assessment and then ask for them to choose from severe, mod, mild MALN as well as other an UTD.


    Katy

  • ebraunebraun
    I'm not sure about best practice, but I am happy to share our query. Our CDI staff sends the queries, not the dieticians in our facility.  We use ASPEN criteria and the dieticians have incorporated that into their documentation.  Please email me if you would like our sample query. 
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