NICU oral intake
Hello-
In our NICU providers are documenting "inadequate oral intake" and "inadequate enteral nutrition" . RD is managing patients and resources are be utilized for the nutritional management of the baby. Question how to code or query to be able to capture this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you-
Sona Buchanan and Beth Wier
buchanso@slhs.org
Wiere@slhs.org
In our NICU providers are documenting "inadequate oral intake" and "inadequate enteral nutrition" . RD is managing patients and resources are be utilized for the nutritional management of the baby. Question how to code or query to be able to capture this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you-
Sona Buchanan and Beth Wier
buchanso@slhs.org
Wiere@slhs.org
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First thoughts that come to mind are, why are they having inadequate intake and is it causing a degree of malnutrition? Some opportunity is to see what speech therapy is documenting...are they having a swallowing difficulty/some form of dysphagia? We are implementing a malnutrition education in our NICU currently. Patricia Becker is one of our Dietitians that has done some work w/ pediatric and neonatal malnutrition criteria. I hope this helps. Feel free to reach out to me via email.
Jorde
spitlerj@childrensdayton.org