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Abstract Number: 225
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Malnutrition affects up to 30% of inpatients, but is rarely diagnosed. This leads to under-treatment and poor patient outcomes including: infections, pressure ulcers, and poor wound healing. In the MS-DRG system, malnutrition is considered either a major complication/comorbidity (MCC) or a complication/comorbidity (CC), depending on specificity and severity. Therefore, missed diagnoses significantly impact patient […]
Abstract Number: 253
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Many hospitalized adults arrive with pre-existing malnutrition, which is associated with high risk of adverse outcomes. As such, malnutrition is a common variable in cost and quality risk adjustment models based on hospital discharge diagnosis codes. Hospital dietitians assess patients for malnutrition and generally document the details of their evaluations. However, coding professionals cannot […]
Abstract Number: 280
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Anywhere from 20-50% of all hospitalized adult patients are impacted by malnourishment on admission. Although malnutrition has a worldwide impact on patient outcomes, it is frequently under documented. This proves detrimental to patient outcomes as the average length of stay is 1.5 times greater than those not affected by malnutrition. This is further exemplified […]
Abstract Number: 321
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: According to a report of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) that looked at hospital admissions in 2013, the care of hospitalized malnourished patients costs twice as much as those without malnourishment due to prolonged hospital stays and increased readmission rates. Furthermore, up to 30 to 50 percent of patients are malnourished upon […]
Abstract Number: 367
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Malnutrition is a significant indicator for illness severity and expected mortality. Prior to any process improvement interventions in 2014, only 4.7% of UNMH inpatients were diagnosed with malnutrition at discharge, much lower than the published national inpatient prevalence of 20-50%. Given the relatively high level of poverty in NM, we believe these lower rates […]
Abstract Number: 448
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old woman with self-reported history of mast cell activation syndrome and chronic back pain presented to the hospital three times over a two-month period for recurrent skin/soft tissue infections. Her first hospitalization (10/19 – 10/24) was for bilateral hand/wrist abscesses requiring extensive tenosynovectomy and radiocarpal arthrotomy; cultures grew MSSA and she was […]