Malnutrition

katysuegood@gmail.com

When do you query for malnutrition?

Lab data (pre-alb, protein, etc)?
reports of unintended weight loss?
chronic illness (cancer with weight loss)?
BMI?
nutritional supplementation with Tube feeds or TPN?
Other?

We have a meeting with nutrition to discuss malnutrition next week and in the past we have been at odds about what criteria deserves a query.
I'm just wondering what others query on.

Thanks!

tkreiling

I have a physician documenting severe protein energy malnutrition, the coding book and our encoder does not appear to accept energy in place of calorie. Does anyone have a reference that shows energy can be interchanged with calorie or do I need to query the physician to document calorie?

Thank you,
Tara