Abstract
Under shortening of average length of hospital stay and the environment of introduction of DPC (Diagnosis Procedure Combination) Payment System, introduction of systematic nutrition care management is an urgent issue in order to prevent prolongation of hospital stay due to hospital malnutrition.
For this reason, the Nutrition-path which is a nutrition-related critical path attracts attention. We reviewed the Nutrition-path in this paper as follows; the review about the national questionnaire result about a nutrition path and the following 10 points of a nutrition path.
(1) Including nutrition care management (NCM) in path, (2) Clinical practice guideline relevant to nutrition are referred to at the time of path creation, (3) The combined use with nutrition path and the clinical practice guideline about nutrition, (4) The information disclosure as part of the medical treatment, (5) Set-up of nutrition outcome, (6) Set-up of nutrition variance, (7) Set-up of clinical indicator, (8) The application to risk management, (9) The nutrition path to DPC application, (10) Nutrition electronic path.
