Abstract

Background Providing quality, patient-centered nutrition care is the main priority of dieticians working in clinical settings. Within the last decades there was a development of numerous new fields of work for clinical dieticians, including enteral and parenteral nutrition as well as the challenge integrating current evidence-based findings into daily work. To ensure continuous improvement of ongoing processes, a quality management system is crucial. This systematic approach leads to high quality nutrition care and in further consequence patient safety. Therefore it was the aim of the Department of Dietetics and Applied Nutrition (University Hospital Graz) to implement a quality management system and the certification through an official accreditation organization (qualityaustria, ISO 9001:2008) [1].

Highlights

  • Providing quality, patient-centered nutrition care is the main priority of dieticians working in clinical settings

  • All counselling documents were validated through the University of Applied Sciences - Department of Dietetics and Nutrition

  • All processes are implemented through the collaboration-system “Microsoft SharePoint” and available for all dieticians in the latest version

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Summary

Background

Patient-centered nutrition care is the main priority of dieticians working in clinical settings. To ensure continuous improvement of ongoing processes, a quality management system is crucial. This systematic approach leads to high quality nutrition care and in further consequence patient safety. It was the aim of the Department of Dietetics and Applied Nutrition (University Hospital Graz) to implement a quality management system and the certification through an official accreditation organization (qualityaustria, ISO 9001:2008) [1]. Evidence-based standardized guidelines were developed for safe, effective and patient-focused nutrition care. To maintain high quality nutrition care it is essential to measure outcomes as well as subsequent improvements.

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