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The framework emphasizes protected oral health and nutrition champion roles, a practical 48-hour bedside assessment standard for high-priority operational alerts, standards-based electronic health record (EHR) integration, and prevention-oriented escalation pathways. We clarify that the proposed approach does not require a single black-box AI risk score. Instead, AI-derived measurements, such as estimated intake, plate-waste ratio, deviation from baseline, and image-based oral findings, can be combined with weight trends, EHR data, operational thresholds, and nurse review. The playbook specifies staged rollout, staff-facing alert outputs, fidelity checks for data capture, fallback documentation options for facilities with lower digital maturity, and key performance indicators for clinical outcomes, workflow burden, equity, and cost. Ethical safeguards include layered consent, minimum-necessary capture, opt-out recording, explainability for residents and proxies, and subgroup monitoring. AI-enabled clinical monitoring can support earlier action in LTC only if it is embedded in nursing workflows, auditable documentation, and accountable governance. Prospective, co-designed implementation studies are needed to test feasibility, workload, effectiveness, and equity across diverse LTC settings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2196\/87598","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,5]],"date-time":"2026-10-05T20:14:32Z","timestamp":1791231272000},"page":"e87598-e87598","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["From Episodic Checks to Continuous Clinical Monitoring: Nursing Policy Viewpoint on AI-Enabled Oral and Nutrition Risk Detection in Long-Term 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