NCP Linkages Background

RESOURCES

To familiarize yourself with the concept of nutrition care process, refer to these articles for a historical perspective as well as more recent publications on this topic:

• Hakel-Smith, N., & Lewis, N. M. (2004). A standardized nutrition care process and language are essential components of a conceptual model to guide and document nutrition care and patient outcomes. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 104(12), 1878-1884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2004.10.015
• Lövestam, E., Orrevall, Y., Koochek, A., Karlström, B., & Andersson, A. (2014). Evaluation of a Nutrition Care Process-based audit instrument, the Diet-NCP-Audit, for documentation of dietetic care in medical records. Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 28(2), 390-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/scs.12049
• Thompson, K. L., Davidson, P., Swan, W. I., Hand, R. K., Rising, C., Dunn, A. V., Lewis, N., & Murphy, W. J. (2015). Nutrition care process chains: the “missing link” between research and evidence-based practice. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 115(9), 1491-1498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2015.04.014
• Murphy, W. J., & Steiber, A. L. (2015). A new breed of evidence and the tools to generate it: introducing ANDHII. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 115(1), 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2014.10.025
• Lewis, S. L., Miranda, L. S., Kurtz, J., Larison, L. M., Brewer, W. J., & Papoutsakis, C. (2022). Nutrition Care Process Quality Evaluation and Standardization Tool: The Next Frontier in Quality Evaluation of Documentation. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 122(3), 650-660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2021.07.004