Steps to Participate
Registration and Codes order
Register on the nutritionDay website and order the required codes for all participating wards, ICUs, nursing homes, or primary care units.
GO TO REGISTRATION or LOGIN
Ethics requirements
Check your local and national ethical regulations. The nutritionDay study is approved annually by the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Vienna.
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Prepare for nutritionDay (nDay)
Download documents and questionnaires, or prepare tablets if using the web app. Plan the participation with your team and your center
Collect data on nutritionDay
On the specific day in November, collect data using printed questionnaires and enter data into the nDay database.Use the web app.on tablets for simultaneous data collection and entry.
SEE QUESTIONNAIRES
Discuss results and plan improvements
Review the report with your team and
develop an action plan to improve areas
highlighted by the report’s results.
Repeat participation annually
Annual participation allows your unit to monitor progress over time, compare results, and support continuous improvement in nutritional care.
Questionnaires
Select the nDay category of your unit and download the questionnaires in your language
Ethics and study approval
The nutritionDay study receives yearly ethical approval from the Medical University of Vienna.
Below you will find the study protocol and ethical approval for each nutritionDay categories.
Please check with your national regulations and your local ethical committee before participation to nutritionDay
HOSPITAL: study protocol / approval
HOSPITAL EXPRESS: study protocol / approval
NURSING HOME:study protocol / approval
ICU: study protocol /approval
ONCOLOGY:study protocol / approval
PRIMARY CARE: study protocol / approval
Patient info and consent
Before conducting nutritionDay , patients should be provided with the appropriate information about the nutritionDay audit. Depending on the applicable ethical and institutional requirements in your country, please select the appropriate “PATIENT INFO” form below to inform your patients.
Legal Issues
The documents provided on this website are intended for non-profit use only.
As a participant, you represent and warrant that:
- You will not use, nor permit others to use, the documents provided on this website for any commercial purpose.
- You will use the downloaded documents solely for non-commercial research purposes and will enter all data obtained through their use into the nutritionDay database.
- You will respect nutritionDay’s copyright for all materials provided and ensure that all downloaded documents are used in their original, unaltered form. All copies or reprints must include proper reference to the copyright holder.
- You will not use the nutritionDay logo except as it appears in the unaltered documents downloaded from this website.
- You will not use any content from this website or the nutritionDay logo for advertising purposes.
Participants acknowledge that the copyright holder makes no representations or warranties regarding the content of this website.
All content and documents are governed by Austrian copyright law.
The copyright holder reserves the right to take legal action in the event of any use that does not comply with these conditions.
Data Protection
An official document on nutritionDay data collection, data protection, and data storage provides a detailed explanation of the data handling processes and the structural measures implemented to ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws.
nDay Flyers and promotional material
Promote participation to nutritionDay and help raise awareness about disease -related malnutrition and the importance of nutritional care with our ready-to-use flyers available in several languages. Use our promotional material to easily inform patients and their relatives, engage with unit staff, and support communication with doctor, nurses and staff in your unit . Download, share, and join the annual international audit on nutritional care
