The Global Malnutrition Composite Score quality measure is now available for 2024 hospital reporting.
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Below you will find a categorized directory of all available MQii tools and resources under the dropdown menus. We encourage you to email us at malnutritionquality@avalere.com with any specific questions.
Follow this guide to see the process for using MQii tools to assess your facility’s readiness, assemble your team, understand the quality improvement, map your clinical workflow and get started on your quality improvement project.
Use to identify how prepared you, your care teams, or your organization are to implement a malnutrition quality improvement project. Based on your responses, the questionnaire will suggest where to begin and which materials in the toolkit to use.
Highlights the importance of addressing malnutrition in the hospital and provides the business case to implement a quality improvement project and evidence to support adoption of the MQii tools and resources.
Key Talking Points for Hospital Leadership and Clinicians
Below are key talking points to consider when meeting with hospital leadership, clinicians, and other key stakeholders in your hospital to achieve buy-in and support for resources to implement a malnutrition quality improvement project. Also see the MQii Toolkit for additional information.
The briefing outlines key facts and statistics about the impact and burden of malnutrition and how addressing it can improve patient outcomes and hospital performance.
Use this presentation to receive guidance on how to build your project team, map your current malnutrition practices, compare to MQii recommended workflow practices, and identify the best clinical improvement(s) to introduce to your care teams. Use in conjunction with the best practices highlighted in the Toolkit document
Use as an organization resource management tool (e.g. budget, timeline).
Use to identify potential contributing factors to malnutrition care gaps in your organization.
Use this matrix after your team has completed the Clinical Workflow Map and the Care Assessment and Decision Tool to prioritize among potential quality improvement projects based on their impact and your organization’s available resources.
Use to assess your current practices and identify improvements on which to focus. Complete as a first step to your clinical workflow mapping process, or if you have difficulty identifying what to target.
Provides an example of best practices for malnutrition care and template to map out your team’s current practice workflow.
Use this 1-pager with your project teams or post it in circulation areas to remind care team members of the key steps for optimal malnutrition care.
The Lessons Learned Log Template is a suggested tool intended to allow your team to:
Use to help care team members recognize the characteristics of malnutrition and identify patients who may be malnourished or at-risk of malnutrition.
Use to help Care Team members recognize the characteristics of malnutrition and identify patients who may be malnourished or at-risk of malnutrition
PDF DocumentUse to measure your Care Team’s knowledge of the burden of malnutrition and key aspects of optimal care before and after implementation
Use to measure your care team’s knowledge of the burden of malnutrition and key aspects of optimal care before and after implementation.
Word DocumentUse to educate your MQii Project Team members.
Offers step-by-step instructions from pre-implementation through post-implementation.
Use to guide your quality improvement activities for each step in the malnutrition care workflow.
Shared discussion and decision-making tool for patient-provider discharge planning.
Series of videos on NCP overview, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring & evaluation.
Access VideosCompilation of resources from ASPEN and other organizations to help clinicians and administrators in the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease-related malnutrition.
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The 2024 Learning Collaborative brings together healthcare stakeholders across the U.S. to support acceleration and dissemination of malnutrition best practices for patients. Learn more.
Reporting on the GMCS measure is a 2-step process. Learn more.
Resources mapped to the key steps of the nutrition care process and malnutrition care workflow. Learn more.
These materials were developed by the Malnutrition Quality Improvement Initiative (MQii),
a project of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Avalere, and other stakeholders who
provided guidance and expertise through a collaborative partnership. Support provided by Abbott.
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