Combating Disease-Related Malnutrition
Baxter recently partnered with the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to co-author two new statistical briefs – “Characteristics of Hospital Stays Involving Malnutrition” and “All-Cause Readmissions Following Hospital Stays for Patients With Malnutrition” – about the often overlooked consequences of disease-related malnutrition.
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The new data characterizes the impact of malnutrition in U.S. hospitalized patients in human and economic costs – concluding malnutrition is associated with an up to five times higher risk of in-hospital deaths, may result in two times longer hospital stays, creates an estimated $42 billion1 burden to the healthcare system and is associated with a more than 50 percent higher rate of readmission within 30 days2 .
To foster scientific exchange on the issue of malnutrition in the hospital setting, Baxter provided an education grant to support the Clinical Nutrition Week symposium, “Guidelines and Goal-directed Nutritional Therapy in Critically Ill Patients,” to be held on Feb. 20, at 6:15 a.m. The CME (continuing medical education) symposium will be presented by nutrition researchers, Daren Heyland, M.D., Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Claude Pichard, M.D., PhD, Geneva, Switzerland, who will discuss nutrition risk assessment and practical application of support to reduce malnutrition in critically ill, hospitalized patients.
About Baxter's Nutrition Business
Baxter has been assisting clinicians in treating patients' diverse nutrient needs since the 1940s, when the company first introduced liquid proteins in the form of amino acids. Since then, Baxter has continued to advance parenteral nutrition (PN) therapy. As an example, Baxter pioneered the world's first "triple-chamber system" internationally for IV nutrition, which provides many of the essential ingredients of balanced nutrition – protein, carbohydrates, lipids and electrolytes in a single container – simplifying the preparation of PN for patients. Today, Baxter provides one of the broadest PN portfolios globally, which includes premix IV solutions, vitamins and lipids, as well as pharmacy workflow management, labeling, compounding technology and enteral nutrition syringes and accessories.
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