IDDSI: The New Dysphagia Diet Standard

This continuing education course will review the role of RDs in dysphagia management and explore the new evidence-based standard for defining texture-modified foods and thickened liquids.

Course content appeared as the CPE Monthly in the June/July 2024 edition of Today's Dietitian.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:

  1. Discuss the dietitian’s role in the screening, assessment, and treatment of dysphagia.
  2. Compare the National Dysphagia Diet to the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI).
  3. List the eight levels that compose the IDDSI framework.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 CDR
Course opens: 
06/13/2024
Course expires: 
06/12/2027
CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
Rating: 
0

Course content was written by Emily Guzman, MS, RD, LDN, a clinical dietitian based in Chicago.

The faculty and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 CDR

Price

CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
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