Importance Of Nutritional Assessment

A thorough nutritional assessment is required prior to writing the diet order especially when you are suffering from an underlying medical condition. Hence, it is crucial to get general physician home services in Islamabad and other cities of Pakistan to determine the underlying cause. The nutritionists perform a test called nutritional assessment. It helps to:

Identify patients who can benefit from nutritional therapy to restore or maintain the nutritional status of the body.

Identification of appropriate nutritional therapies and evaluate nutritional therapy effectiveness by maintaining nutritional status.

Information on a patient’s nutritional status can be gathered from medical, social and dietary histories as well as parametric measurements, biochemical analysis, and physical examination. A sub-featured Global assessment includes physical examinations as well as a five-part clinical interview.

CLINICAL INTERVIEW

As the patient’s mental capacity or emotions can limit or intervene with the interview process. The doctor needs to repeat or rephrase interview questions while probing for relevant information to talk with another person, who has observed the patient closely. The clinical interview should obtain subjective information in the following five categories:

 Body Weight

Changes in eating patterns

Gastroenterological symptoms

Functional capacity or energy level

Disease activity and impact.

These things cannot be determined without professional help. Hence it is important to access general physician home services in Rawalpindi without going for any diet/nutritional of lifestyle change.

ELEMENTS OF THE DIET ORDER

Each diet order should include information relevant to achieving nutritional goals that support an overall medical treatment plan.

·         Calories and Source of Calories

·         Fluids and electrolytes

·         Supplements

·         Restrictions

·         Prescribing diet orders

·         Specialized formulas

·         Changing orders

·         Monitoring and assessing outcomes

CONCLUSION

Assessment and monitoring of nutritional therapy is an ongoing and integral element of providing adequate medical care regardless of the disease. The dynamic nature of nutritional therapy may require regular updates and the rewriting of diet orders while the responsibility of overseeing treatment belongs to the physician.

It is important that health care professionals contribute to the planning and monitoring of ongoing nutritional therapy.