To celebrate the Grant’s 15th anniversary, the 2023 MNI Grant was awarded to two outstanding projects, the 1st one from Poland
‘Passport to health. Nutritional self-assessment. Empowerment of the patient and primary care health professionals.’ submitted by Polish Society for Parenteral, Enteral Nutrition and Metabolism (POLSPEN).
The aim of the project is to create an ‘airport-like’ check-in for patients seeing a physician with an online tool for self-assessment of nutritional status. A “nutrition passport” will be generated on the website with the screening result and a QR code with a link to the knowledge base for the patient and physician. Online activities in the knowledge base will be associated with the screening record. Patients and physicians will be surveyed about the knowledge gained and the treatment initiated.
The goal is to promote early nutrition screening and intervention. The strategy is to develop a patient-centered educational model supported by a simple online self-assessment tool. A web knowledge base with basic information and algorithms will be also addressed for primary care health professionals.
The award was consigned by MNI President, Angelika Müller, to Prof. Marcin Folwarski, Medical University of Gdansk, and Dr. Varma Shilpa, Fortis Hospital, Noida/Mumbai during the MNI Grant Ceremony held during the ESPEN congress on 13 September 2023 in Lyon, France.
For more information about POLSPEN and IAPEN please visit their respective websites.
MNI would like to acknowledge the other high-level applications received, whose posters are available here below:
- Providing experienced gastroenterologists in Poland with comprehensive tools designed to assess nutritional status and implement optimal nutritional management strategies in patients with gastroenterological disorders – endorsed by POLSPEN
- Nutritional status of high-risk IVF patients: impact on obstetrical complications / A prospective cohort study at Brussels IVF, Belgium – endorsed by VVKVM
- Core outcome set in oropharyngeal dysphagia – International consensus on how to define and assess the severity of oropharyngeal dysphagia – endorsed by ESSD
- Bench to Bedside / Scientific based nutritional therapy in daily clinical practice – endorsed by GESKES
- CAN DReaM International A Policy Approach to Address Disease-Related Malnutrition – endorsed by SFNCM & CNS
- A new quick method to assess skeletal muscle mass: feasible for large cohorts? – endorsed by NESPEN
- Dysphagia and Disease Related Malnutrition in Head and Neck Cancer Patients – endorsed by AKE
- Diaphragm volume and quality in ICU patients: the new ‘nutrition parameter’ kid in town? Associations with protein provision, corticosteroid and muscle relaxant use – endorsed by NESPEN
- An Observational Study Documenting the Spectrum of Malnutrition in General Surgical Admissions with Associated Outcomes – endorsed by SASPEN
- A survey of the use of artificial nutrition in patients with hypermobility disorders in selected intestinal failure units in England to establish the extent of use of artificial nutrition and rates of complications associated with the use of artificial nutrition in this group of patients. Subtitle: A survey of the use of artificial nutrition in patients with joint hypermobility – endorsed by BAPEN
- Relation between the outcomes of cancer patients on Home Parenteral Nutrition and GLIM criteria and Karnofsky score – endorsed by AANEP
- Establishment of clinical nutrition units in specialized medical centers hospitals – endorsed by EgSPEN
- Nutritional desynchronization in patients with nocturnal parenteral nutrition – endorsed by NESPEN
