Computer‐Assisted Prescription: The Future of Nutrition Care?

Despite the increasing recognition of nutrition status as a modifiable risk factor for life-threatening complications, the importance of nutrition care seems often overlooked by physicians because of a lack of specific interest and training in medical nutrition and/or by the complexity of prescriptions requiring several calculations.1 As a result, there is a lack of standardization and an extensive heterogeneity in the prescription of nutrition. At the time of hospital discharge, home care and community care providers can be informed of the patient's history and continue the nutrition-therapy follow-up at home using the very same system, with involvement of the home physician and ambulatory teams. The CNMS should follow the patient's nutrition therapy journey in the hospital and can continue after discharge, at home, or in rehabilitation facilities. It could be used for patients' follow-up in hospital and home care settings, and it has the potential to federate more people around nutrition support as a critical pillar of the therapy. [Extracted from the article]