Nutrition & Outcomes

Studies show nutrition intervention can improve outcomes and help reduce hospitalizations.¹

Aging and illness are often associated with poor nutritional status and a loss of lean body mass, leading to poor outcomes. Research has shown that early nutrition intervention can help prevent complications and promote quality results, which can help your agency decrease hospitalizations.¹

• Up to 50% of hospitalized patients are malnourished upon admission, and many continue to lose weight after discharge.^2-4


• Clients suffering from malnutrition are at greater risk for unnecessary complications including increased infections, increased incidence of wounds, decreased quality of life, and decreased survival.¹


• Nutrition intervention has been demonstrated to help improve outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations. In one study, the use of oral nutrition supplements, in addition to dietary counseling, reduced rehospitalizations from 48% to 26%.⁵

With the added pressures of healthcare reform and improved outcome requirements, helping prevent unnecessary rehospitalizations can have a significant impact on the overall success of your agency. By identifying at-risk clients and intervening early with nutrition, your agency can make a difference in the health of your clients.
 

Partnering with Abbott Nutrition will give you access to the tools, resources and training you need to implement an effective nutrition therapy program. To improve outcomes, help decrease hospitalizations, and strengthen referral relationships.

1. Tackling Malnutrition: Oral Nutritional Supplements as an integrated part of patient and disease management in hospital and the community.  A summary of the evidence base.  Medical Nutrition International Industry, July 2010.
2. Schiesser M et al. Surgery. 2009;145(5):519-526.
3. Naber THJ et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 1997;66:1232-1239.
4. Beattie Alt et al. Gut. 2000;46:813-818.
5. Norman K et al. Clin Nutr. 2008;27:48-56.