Ensuring close and timely follow-up after discharge. 1  Improving communication between the inpatient and outpatient settings regarding changes in other medications, clinical status, and warfarin treatment plan.
Calories. You should get between 10 and 35 percent of your total calories from protein. For a person on a 2,000-calorie diet, that means consuming 50 to 175 grams of protein per day.
Studies show that 12 percent of men and 24 percent of women over age 70 eat significantly less than 0.8 g/kg a day. These higher recommendations do not translate into a lot of extra protein. To figure out how much protein you'd need, take your weight in pounds and multiply it by 0.45. Then multiply by 1.2 to reach the recommended grams of protein per day. For a person who weighs 200 lb (90 kg), this would equal about 108 g of protein daily. Most meat, poultry and fish have about 7 grams of protein in an ounce. One cup of milk or one egg has about 8 grams.