QI in Action eBulletin #127: Nutrition Month

In this Issue:

• Nutrition month resources
• Food for thought
• NEW- Eating Disorders Quality Standard
• NEW- Surgical Site Infections Quality Standard
• Share your experience and inform future prenatal care innovations
• Upcoming Events

Nutrition month resources
This month we join our Registered Dietitians in celebrating the impact of good nutrition on our patients’ health outcomes. Examples successfully integrating this focus in primary care teams include:

Webinars and conference sessions

• A1-B Nutrition Education at Your Local Coffee Shop
• A3-b – The skinny on self-acceptance and the weight of shame: healthier eating through self-compassion, a group approach
• A5-b You’re the Chef – Hands on Nutrition Education
• B3-b – Medical Nutrition Therapy 2.0: How a Digital Technology (RxFood) for New Dietary Diagnostics Met the Quadruple Aims
• B4 – If you build it, better care will come – Eating Disorders Management Resources for Primary Care
• C1- Challenging Weight Bias in Diabetes Management: The Development and Implementation of a Group Integrating HAES and Intuitive Eating Principles
• C4- Interprofessional Therapeutic Yoga Programs: Supporting Healthy Lifestyles for Older Adults and People with Dementia
• D6 EMR-ization of Standardized Malnutrition Screening and Assessment in Primary Care Across Ontario
• Bariatric surgery webinar series – #1: Introduction; #2: Early/Common Post-Op Complications, #3: Advanced Bariatric Nutrition
• Detecting and Correcting Malnutrition in Family Practice: A Collaborative Approach
• Making the case for nutrition screening in team-based primary care to meet the needs of your frail clients
• Malnutrition in Primary Care: Sum Zero

Posters

• Coordinating Complex Paediatric Nutrition in the Medical Home Model
• Infant Nutrition & Sleep: Creating and Implementing a Program for Sleepy New Parents

Select Resources

• Owen Sound FHT holds ‘Adulting’ focused seminar for youth
• Trent Hills family health team nutrition program, helping people prevent or reverse lifestyle disease
• Nutrition Connections, a program hosted by the Ontario Public Health Association

Food for Thought

• “Registered dietitians’ beliefs and behaviours related to counselling patients on physical activity and sedentary behaviour from a theory of planned behaviour perspective”– BMC Nutrition article by University of Guelph researchers on Nov. 30, 2020
• Metabolic syndrome may be reversed through team-based lifestyle intervention program: Study

NEW- Eating Disorders Quality Standard
Ontario Health’s Eating Disorders quality standard consists of nine quality statements that describe what high quality care looks like for people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. It applies to all care settings and the accompanying patient guide and caregiver guide can help inform conversations between health care providers and people with an eating disorder and their families and caregivers. Find out more.

NEW- Surgical Site Infections Quality Standard
Ontario Health’s latest quality standard consists of seven quality statements highlighting key areas for improvement to prevent surgical site infections for people having surgery that requires an incision. Its accompanying patient guide can help inform conversations between health care providers and people having surgery. Find out more.

Share your experience and inform future prenatal care innovations

BORN and Prenatal Screening Ontario are funded by the Ministry of Health with mandates focused on improving the health outcomes of individuals during and after pregnancy. Prenatal Screening Ontario, who currently oversees aneuploidy screening, is expanding its reach to offer high-quality prenatal screening for conditions amenable to populated-based screening to better inform care and prenatal management.

They want to hear about your experiences caring for pregnant individuals. Interviewees will receive a $50 gift card as a token of their appreciation. Sign up here.

Upcoming Events

Surgical Site Infections: A New Quality Standard for High-Quality Care in Ontario
Apr 13, 2023, 12:00pm
This session will introduce Ontario Health’s recently released Surgical Site Infections quality standard and describe how it can drive quality improvement and improve care for Ontarians across the health system. Register here.

Eating Disorders: A New Quality Standard for High-Quality Care in Ontario
May 5, 2023, 12:00pm
This session will introduce Ontario Health’s recently released Eating Disorders quality standard and describe how it can drive quality improvement and improve care for Ontarians across the health system. Register here.

QI Innovations: Better Data, Better Decisions, Better Outcomes
April 18, 2023
This year’s free QI Innovations conference is for mental health and addiction providers and system planners who are interested in data driven decision making and quality improvement. Register here.

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