Quality Improvement to Identify and Address Food Insecurity During Pediatric Hospitalizations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Hospitalized children represent a vulnerable population with high rates of unidentified food insecurity (FI). We aimed to improve FI screening for eligible families from 0% to 60%. Secondarily, we sought to provide location-based food resources to families that screened positive.

Methods

In February 2021, we developed a multidisciplinary team and used the Model for Improvement to improve routine FI screening for eligible children on 1 inpatient unit at a single institution. Our primary measure was the overall percentage of eligible families screened for FI. Our secondary measure was the percentage of families with FI who received food resource information. Statistical process control charts were used to analyze the impact of our interventions.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Fritz CQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11633818 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature