Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of standardized nutrition care process through nutrition screening, assessment, and nutritional diagnosis on inpatients with tuberculosis. This research was a descriptive observational study. Convenient sampling was conducted, with 40 tuberculosis cases. The data were obtained both from medical record and interview of dieticians. There are two main steps in the nutritional care process assessed in this research, namely, nutritional assessment and nutritional diagnosed. Majority of the patients (97.5%) had completed nutritional screening according to the standard. In contrast, most of patients did not have a standardized and complete documents of nutritional history (90%), anthropometric assessment (77.5%) and clinical result assessment (97.5%). The standardized nutritional care process on hospitalization of tuberculosis patients was not performed accordingly due to heavy workload of dieticians.

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