EVALUATE MEALTIME CARE WITH THESE SIX QUALITY INDICATORS
The information generated by our observational protocol can be summarized as six quality indicator (QI) scores. The advantage of using QI scores is that they highlight clinically significant quality-of-care problems in need of improvement. Additionally, they can be scored as either "passing" or "failing," which is useful for making comparisons within a facility over time. The following mealtime QIs can be scored by hand; alternatively, QI information can be entered into our nutrition software, which can report QI scores by date, day of the week, meal period, even staff member.
Click on any of these QIs to learn more about its scoring rule, rationale, and service/training goals.
