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Table 2 Overview of the main themes and sub-themes of the results

From: Documentation and communication of nutritional care for elderly hospitalized patients: perspectives of nurses and undergraduate nurses in hospitals and nursing homes

Main themes

Sub-themes

Insufficient documentation of nutritional status on hospital admission

No documentation of nutritional risk using validated screening tools

Unsystematic and lacking documentation of nutritional information by hospital admission

Inadequate and unsystematic documentation of nutritional information during hospital stay

Documentation of eating habits and special meals

Unstructured documentation of nutritional information in the patient’s medical record

Limited attention on nutritional documentation

Limited communication of nutritional information between hospital and nursing homes

Limited nutritional information from the nursing homes to the hospital

Limited nutritional information from the hospital to the nursing homes