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Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden
Ensuring that the elderly drink adequate fluids to meet their recommended daily allowance is often a challenge, especially among the elderly in hospitals and long-term care settings. The complex interplay of biological, medical and psychosocial factors that cause the elderly to become dehydrated is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36588323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002055 |
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author | Khoo, Sophie Su Hui Arroyo, Sheila Lee, Yan Qing Chew, Xiao Jia Li, Fuyin Sinnatamby, Savithri Koa, Allan Boon Teck Lim, Si Ching |
author_facet | Khoo, Sophie Su Hui Arroyo, Sheila Lee, Yan Qing Chew, Xiao Jia Li, Fuyin Sinnatamby, Savithri Koa, Allan Boon Teck Lim, Si Ching |
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description | Ensuring that the elderly drink adequate fluids to meet their recommended daily allowance is often a challenge, especially among the elderly in hospitals and long-term care settings. The complex interplay of biological, medical and psychosocial factors that cause the elderly to become dehydrated is difficult to tackle especially in care settings where there is a staff shortage and heavy workload. The team realised that 90% of the elderly inpatients in the general ward of a teaching hospital in Singapore were not drinking enough to meet their needs, despite the hot and humid weather. Reasons which contributed to inadequate fluid intake included human resources, environmental, patient and system factors. Strategies were put in place to improve fluid intake but were not successful, due to staff shortage and time constraints. The team ended up innovating and producing a dysphagia cup to improve fluid intake, promote independence among patients while encouraging them to drink more, improve nursing efficiency, reduce caregiver burden and reduce aspiration risk. The cup was able to meet all the expectations with good feedback from the care team, patients and their families. |
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spelling | pubmed-97434032022-12-13 Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden Khoo, Sophie Su Hui Arroyo, Sheila Lee, Yan Qing Chew, Xiao Jia Li, Fuyin Sinnatamby, Savithri Koa, Allan Boon Teck Lim, Si Ching BMJ Open Qual Quality Improvement Report Ensuring that the elderly drink adequate fluids to meet their recommended daily allowance is often a challenge, especially among the elderly in hospitals and long-term care settings. The complex interplay of biological, medical and psychosocial factors that cause the elderly to become dehydrated is difficult to tackle especially in care settings where there is a staff shortage and heavy workload. The team realised that 90% of the elderly inpatients in the general ward of a teaching hospital in Singapore were not drinking enough to meet their needs, despite the hot and humid weather. Reasons which contributed to inadequate fluid intake included human resources, environmental, patient and system factors. Strategies were put in place to improve fluid intake but were not successful, due to staff shortage and time constraints. The team ended up innovating and producing a dysphagia cup to improve fluid intake, promote independence among patients while encouraging them to drink more, improve nursing efficiency, reduce caregiver burden and reduce aspiration risk. The cup was able to meet all the expectations with good feedback from the care team, patients and their families. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9743403/ /pubmed/36588323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002055 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Quality Improvement Report Khoo, Sophie Su Hui Arroyo, Sheila Lee, Yan Qing Chew, Xiao Jia Li, Fuyin Sinnatamby, Savithri Koa, Allan Boon Teck Lim, Si Ching Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
title | Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
title_full | Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
title_fullStr | Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
title_short | Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
title_sort | development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden |
topic | Quality Improvement Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36588323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002055 |
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