Today, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has published an investigation report on nutrition management of acutely unwell patients in acute medical units.
BAPEN was delighted to contribute to this report, which aims to support improvements in the identification of malnutrition and management of nutritional needs for patients within acute medical units (AMUs).
The investigation uses, as an example, a real patient safety incident in which a man’s nutritional needs were not met for 19 days stay in hospital, of which 13 days were in AMU resulting in him losing up to 26% of his body weight within a six-week period. The report includes a number of key findings, including local-level learnings.
We encourage you to read the full report, which is available here.
