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Cross-Sectional Nutrition Profile Of Palliative Home Care Clients In Ontario And Performance Of The Interrai Palliative Care Nutrition Clinical Assessment Protocol, Tara Stevens, Heather Keller, Nicole Williams, James Downar, Dawn M. Guthrie
Cross-Sectional Nutrition Profile Of Palliative Home Care Clients In Ontario And Performance Of The Interrai Palliative Care Nutrition Clinical Assessment Protocol, Tara Stevens, Heather Keller, Nicole Williams, James Downar, Dawn M. Guthrie
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Background: The nutrition profile of palliative home care clients is unknown. This study describes this group and their nutrition issues and evaluates the performance of the interRAI nutrition Clinical Assessment Protocol (CAP).
Methods: This was a cross-sectional secondary analysis using Ontario interRAI Palliative Care (interRAI PC) Assessment data. The sample represents 74,963 unique Ontario home care clients assessed between 2011 and 2018. Frequencies and standardized differences (stdiffs) of nutrition characteristics were presented for cancer (n = 62,394) and noncancer (n = 12,569) diagnostic subgroups. Rates of triggering the nutrition CAP were presented by nutrition issue to evaluate its performance.
Results: …