Clinical Nutrition Update: A Nutrition Perspective from the Crossroads of Hospital Outcomes and Medicare Policy

Chairs

Edward Saltzman, MD, Boston, MA

Presentations

Medicare and Healthcare-related Complications:  An Overview, Richard Dupee, MD, Boston MA

The Role for Nutrition in Prevention and Treatment of Infectious and Non-Infectious Hospital Acquired Conditions:  Pneumonia, C. Difficile Colitis and Decubitus Ulcers, Simin N. Meydani, DVM, PhD, Boston, MA and David S. Seres, MD, New York, NY

Growth Failure Due to Malnutrition in Hospitalized Children, W. Allan Walker, MD, Boston, MA

A New Approach to Diagnosis and Coding of Malnutrition:  Preliminary Experience, Gordon L Jensen, MD, PhD, University Park, PA