Benchmark and monitor the nutritional care in your healthcare institution with nutritionDay!

Join the nutritionDay worldwide audit on
12 Nov 2026
to enhance quality of care through systematic monitoring and benchmarking. This one-day snapshot allows you to track nutritional risks and compare your results against a worldwide reference

About nutritionDay

What is nutritionDay?

nutritionDay is a global initiative that aims to improve nutritional care in healthcare settings and raise awareness of disease-related malnutrition. Each year in November, nutritionDay is conducted as a 1-day, cross-sectional audit (nDay) and has become one of the largest international databases of hospitalized patients and nursing homes residents.

Data collection at nDay

On a single, specified day (nDay), hospital wards, ICUs, primary care units, and nursing homes around the world collect anonymized data and upload them to the nutritionDay database using a simple, standardized, and multilingual data collection system.Data collection is performed by means of standardized questionnaires. Unit staff provide information on unit structure and organization, patients’ medical history, diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes. Patients complete a short questionnaire covering nutritional habits, food intake, recent weight loss, mobility, self perceived health status.

Benchmark with nutritionDay your nutrition care

Participating units receive a free, multidata graphical and numerical report that compares their results with a worldwide reference in the same specialty. These reports support benchmarking, quality monitoring, and continuous improvement of nutritional care for patients

Why participate in nDay?

  • Benchmark and monitor nutritional care in your institution
  • Identify patients’ nutrition risk profiles
  • Receive a free unit report with international comparison
  • Support quality improvement and international research
  • Raise awareness of disease-related malnutrition

What data are collected?

Food intake before and on nutritionDay

Patient risk factors for malnutrition (e.g. recent weight loss, Reduced food intake, mobility…) and outcomes

Nutrition care quality indicators

Center/Unit structure and organization (resources and processes) Outcomes (30 days after nutritionDay for Hospitals; 60 days for ICUs;180 days for Nursing Homes and Primary Care).

All collected data are anonymized, ensuring privacy and ethical compliance.

Participation

Participation is voluntary and free of charge. nutritionDay takes place on a single day each year, making it a practical and effective tool for both monitoring care and advance research