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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Attention: Emergency and Inpatient Providers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">Effective Wednesday April 30, 2025:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">ED and Inpatient providers find updated dysphagia diet orders as the
<b>International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI) Diet</b> pilot transitions away from the current National Dysphagia Diet (NDD) for Phase One.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This is for all
<b>Adult and Pediatric patients</b> at the <b>Downtown</b> and <b>Community Hospitals</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Orders will show both descriptions, IDDSI with NDD in parenthesis for ease of ordering the most appropriate modified diet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoTitle"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">To learn more, click the following link:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.upstate.edu/training/intra/epic/documents/dysphagia_diet_order_selections_iddsi_phase_one.pdf"><span style="color:#0070C0">Dysphagia
Diet Order Selections IDDSI Phase 1</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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