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The VST System

CLINICAL NUTRITION Tool Kit:
DIET HISTORY TOOL
The VST Diet History Tool provides an electronically maintained patient record for use by both clinical professionals and diet office personnel. The patient diet history record contains all information required for each patient and eliminates the need to maintain paper cardex records. The facility has the ability to create customized templates in the record for different patient types in order to capture the specific information required by clinical dietitians. These patient records can be archived in the system upon discharge, and they can be automatically retrieved if the patient is readmitted.

Historic information on a patient's nutritional status, including previous diet order, dislikes, specific patient demographic information, and other critical details, can be kept on file for individual patients. Using the patient's name or ID number, this information can be recalled, referenced, and updated at any time.

Ideally, the Diet History Tool should interface with the hospital's Admission/ Discharge/Transfer system, Order Entry system, Laboratory system, and Pharmacy system to create patient records for the Diet History file and execute changes to the records.

The Diet History Tool fully integrates with related VST tools for Menu Management, Nutrient Analysis, Nutritional Risk Screening, Nutritional Assessment and Food/Drug Interaction. Information generated through these systems is stored in the Diet History record and can be accessed at any time.

Benefits
The VST Diet History Tool:

• Promotes continuity of care, often preventing errors in honoring patient’s preferences and dietary needs.
• Improves productivity for clinical staff.

Print information from this page plus details on all of the tools in the Clinical Nutrition Tool Kit:

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