Patient Administered Nutrition Assessment Tool

[Jean Egan]

Jennifer,
Check with nursing staff and/or patients to evaluate reading level, and
reading abilities when
they come in for dialysis. Identify the best time in the recovery cycle to
obtain the information.
Have they considered doing an automated telephone survey with the patient?

-----Original Message-----
From: PHNUTR-L-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:PHNUTR-L-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Jennifer Mathews
Biggs
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:44 PM
To: Public Health Nutrition Discussion and Information Group
Subject: Patient Administered Nutrition Assessment Tool


Hello
I am currently a nutrition intern at the University of Maryland Medical
Systems in Baltimore, MD.  I am in the middle of my clinical management
rotation.

I am looking for a patient administered nutrition assessment tool that can
be used with kidney transplant patients who are returning to the
transplant clinic for follow up.  I need a tool that can be completed by
the patient, easily scored/scanned by the nursing staff, and that will
flag any patient at nutritional risk that needs to be seen by a dietitian.

If you know of tools that are not specific to this patient population, I
would still be interested in them.

Thank you!
Jennifer Biggs
UMMS Dietetic Intern
jmbiggs at wam.umd.edu