Assessing nourishment problems at a hospital: what can we learn from them?
Mette Kring ClausenSøren Bie Bie BoghMathilde Schmidt-PetersenLars MorsøPublished in: BMJ open quality (2024)
A low proportion of nutrition problems may express an underestimation regarding nourishment at the hospital. A patient's threshold may not be exceeded by suboptimal nutrition and therefore does not file a complaint. However, complaints contain important insights contributing to wider learning, given that improvements at the hospital so far are based on clinicians' reporting, overlooking the patient perspective.