Resources: Clinical Care

This area is your reference to information on the Web addressing a variety of topics for dietary managers — from foodservice management to human resources to diet therapy. Many of these resources are Web pages. A few are in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. If you do not have Acrobat, you can download it free from: www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

Do you have a favorite website relevant to dietary management? To suggest websites to add to this directory, please contact the DMA webmaster.

Care Plans • www.careplans.com
Addresses the entire care planning process including Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), • www.cms.gov
formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) links

Meeting the Challenge • www.usfoodservice.com/flash/services/ archive/healthnext/winter_2001/article7.html
Improving Clinical Nutrition and Financial Outcomes (article from US Foodservice Healthnext).

Merck & Co., Inc. • www.merck.com
Reference manual on drugs of all types.

National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Aging • http://nutritionandaging.fiu.edu
Promotes active healthy aging by working to reduce nutrition risk among older adults, especially minorities with health disparities.

Nutrition Care Alerts • www.ahca.org/quality/care-alert/care-alerts.pdf
Describes warning signs and action steps for common nutritional care problems in longterm care