Nutritional intake monitoring for nursing home residents: A comparison of staff documentation, direct observation, and photography methods

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-213

  Simmons, Sandra F ^a   Reuben, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Nursing homes; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING HOME; PHOTOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033978404     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb03914.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Keller HH. Malnutrition in the institutionalized elderly: How and why? J Am Geriatr Soc 1993;41:1212-1218.
2. Abassi AA, Rudman D. Undernutrition in the nursing home: Prevalence, consequences, causes, and prevention. Nutr Rev 1994;52:113-122.
3. United States General Accounting Office, Health, Education, and Human Services Division. Report to the Special Committee on Aging, U. S. Senate (July 1998). California Nursing Homes: Care Problems Persist Despite Federal and State Oversight, GAO/HEHS-98-202.
4. Bergstrom N, Braden B. A prospective study of pressure sore risk among institutionalized elderly. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992;40:747-758.
5. Dwyer JT, Coleman KA, Krall E et al. Changes in relative weight among institutionalized elderly adults. J Gerontol 1987;42:246-251.
6. Ferguson RP, O'Conner P, Crabtree B et al. Serum albumin and prealbumin as predictors of clinical outcomes of hospitalized elderly nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc 1993;41:345-549.
7. Rudman D, Mattson DE, Feller AG, Nagraj HS. A mortality risk index for men in a Veterans Administration extended care facility. J Parenter Enter Nutr 1989;13:189-195.
8. Woo J, Chan SM, Mak YT, Swaminathan R. Biochemical predictors of short term mortality in elderly residents of chronic care institutions. J Clin Pathol 1989;42:1241-1245.
9. Morris JN, Hawes C, Murphy K et al. Resident Assessment Instrument Training Manual and Resource Guide, Health Care Financing Administration. Natick, MA: Eliot Press, 1991.
10. Kayser-Jones J, Schell E, Porter C, Paul S. Reliability of percentage figures used to record the dietary intake of nursing home residents. Nurs Home Med 1997;5:69-76.
11. Pokrywka HS, Koffler KH, Remsburg R et al. Accuracy of patient care staff in estimating and documenting meal intake of nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997;45:1223-1227.
12. Crooks VC, Schnelle JF, McNees MP, Ouslander JG. Use of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) to rate incontinence seventy. J Am Geriatr Soc 1995;43:1363-1369.
13. Schnelle JF, Newman DR, White M et al. Reducing and managing restraints in long-term care. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992;40:381-385.
14. Cohen-Mansfield J. Turnover among nursing home staff: A review. Nurs Manage 1997;28:59-62.
15. Banaszak-Holl J, Hines MA. Factors associated with nursing home staff turnover. Gerontologist 1996;36:512-517.
16. Schnelle JF, Newman DR, White M et al. Maintaining continence in nursing home residents through the application of industrial quality control. Gerontologist 1993;33:114-121.
17. Schnelle JF, Ouslander JG, Cruise PA. Policy without technology: A barrier to changing nursing home care. Gerontologist 1997;37:527-532.
18. Bird G, Elwood PC. The dietary intake of subjects estimated from photographs compared with a weighed record. Hum Nutr: Appl Nutr 1983;37A: 470-473.
19. Nelson M, Atkinson M, Darbyshire S. Food photography II: Use of food photographs for estimating portion size and the nutrient content of meals. Br J Nutr 1996;76:31-49.
20. Folstein MF, Folstein SF, McHugh PR Mini-Mental State. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for clinicians. J Psychiatr Res 1975;12:189-198.
21. Kayser-Jones J. Mealtime in nursing homes: The importance of individualized care. J Gerontol Nurs 1996;March:26-31.
22. Kayser-Jones J, Schell E. The effect of staffing on the quality of care at meal-time. Nurs Outlook 1997;45:64-72.
23. Mondoux L. Testimony of the American Nurses Association before the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committee on Improving Quality in Long Term Care, Washington, DC, 1998.
24. Ballard DH, Brown CM. Computer Vision. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.