Expert consensus for management specification to construct "Hungry-Free Hospital" ensure patient safety(2024 edition)
The Clinical Nutrition Action Expert Committee of the National Nutrition and Health Expert Committee, Expert Group on the Construction Project of "Hungry-Free Hospital"
Abstract：Hospitals are the places with the highest incidence of malnutrition and inpatients are the groups with the highest
incidence of malnutrition. Malnutrition is an independent risk factor for patients with reduction of therapeutic effect whilst increase of
complications mortality risk prolonged hospital stay medical costs and a decline in the quality of life a reduction in survival time.
Standardized nutrition management has become a problem that both hospital administrators and medical practitioners are required to pay
great attention to and solve in urgent. It can effectively prevent the insufficient intake during hospitalization hospital - acquired
malnutrition and treat disease-related malnutrition by promoting the construction of "Hungry-Free Hospital". Thus the goal will be
achieved to improve medical quality patient safety medical efficiency as well as realize value-based healthcare. For this purpose the
Clinical Nutrition Action Expert Committee of the National Nutrition and Health Expert Committee organized the administration
medical nutrition and nursing personnel to build up an expert group who finally formulate the Expert consensus for management
specification to construct "Hungry-Free Hospital" ensure patient safety 2024 edition based on existed research evidence at home and
abroad. This specification elaborates the organization responsibilities implementation plan and quality control for construction of
"Hungry-Free Hospital" which has guiding significance for standardizing nutrition management in medical institutions and
comprehensively promoting the construction of "Hungry-Free Hospital".
