Dietary: Therapeutic diets, meal orders and ward catering

Hospital inpatient dietetics: menus, therapeutic diets, tray tickets, nutrition assessments and kitchen shift planning.

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Dietary in the Bridge HMS Suite: Therapeutic diets, meal orders and ward catering

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Everything in Dietary

65 items in 13 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

Patient Diet Orders
- Patient diet order recordsCreate physician-prescribed diet orders linked to a patient, admission reference and prescribing doctor with auto-generated DIET/ sequence reference.
- Order lifecycle state machineMove each order through Draft, Active, Completed and Canceled states using Activate, Complete, Cancel and Reset-to-Draft workflow buttons.
- Status bar navigationA visual statusbar shows draft, active and completed stages so ward staff see order progress at a glance.
- Therapeutic diet assignmentAttach a therapeutic diet protocol (diabetic, renal, cardiac, etc.) to each order from the configured library.
- Food texture selectionSpecify texture modification per patient as Regular, Minced & Moist, Puree or Liquid for dysphagia safety.
- Fluid restriction limitRecord a daily fluid restriction in ml/day directly on the diet order.
Tray Tickets & Meal Service
- Patient tray ticketsGenerate per-meal tray tickets tied to a diet order with auto TRAY/ sequence, serve date, meal period, menu and ward.
- Automatic daily tray generation cronA scheduled job creates next-day tray tickets for all six meal periods for every active, non-NPO order in its date window.
- Duplicate-safe tray creationThe cron checks for existing tickets per order, date and meal before creating so runs never duplicate trays.
- Automatic menu matchingEach generated tray is auto-assigned an active menu matching its meal period.
- Tray service state machineAdvance trays through Planned, Prepared, Dispatched, Served and Refused via dedicated workflow buttons.
- Meal intake trackingRecord consumed intake as a 0-100 percentage per tray, validated by a constraint that rejects out-of-range values.
Cyclical Menu Engineering
- Cyclical menu recordsBuild menus for a 1-14 day rotating cycle across meal periods, enforced by a cycle-day range constraint.
- Unique menu codesEach menu carries a unique code enforced at database level to prevent duplicates.
- Menu line itemsAdd ordered, drag-handle-sequenced food items to each menu with portion size in grams.
- Per-item macronutrient dataCapture kcal, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium for every menu item.
- Automatic menu nutrition totalsMenus auto-compute stored totals for calories, protein, carbs, fat, sodium and item count from their items.
- Per-item allergen taggingTag each menu item with its contained allergens via many2many tags.
Therapeutic Diet Library
- Therapeutic diet protocolsMaintain a library of clinical diet protocols each with a unique code and clinical indication.
- 22 clinical indicationsClassify diets across 22 indications: diabetic, renal, cardiac, low-sodium, dysphagia, halal, kosher, vegan, low-FODMAP, ketogenic, bariatric and more.
- Daily nutrition targetsSet target calories, protein, carbs, sodium, potassium and daily fluid volume per protocol.
- Restrictions and rationale textDocument forbidden foods, cross-contamination guidance and clinical rationale/evidence base per diet.
- Therapeutic diet groupingSearch by name, code and indication and group the library by indication.
Allergen Management
- Allergen catalogMaintain a catalog of major EU/US allergens with unique codes, seeded with 14 major allergens.
- Allergen severity hintsRate each allergen Low, Moderate, High or Risk of Anaphylaxis to drive color coding on orders.
- Anaphylaxis risk filterQuick-filter the catalog to anaphylaxis-risk allergens and group by severity.
- Multi-edit allergen listThe allergen list supports multi-edit and drag-handle sequencing for fast catalog maintenance.
- Translatable allergen namesAllergen names are translatable for multilingual hospital deployments.
Nutrition Screening & Assessment
- Nutrition risk assessmentsRecord dated per-patient nutrition assessments with auto NUTR/ sequence and assigned dietitian.
- Anthropometric captureRecord weight, height and mid-arm circumference for each assessment.
- Automatic BMI calculationBMI is computed and stored automatically from weight and height.
- MUST screening scoreCapture the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool score on each assessment.
- NRS-2002 screening scoreCapture the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 score alongside MUST.
- Automatic risk stratificationRisk level auto-derives as Low, Medium or High from the higher screening score and BMI thresholds (BMI<16 high, <18.5 medium).
Kitchen Operations
- Kitchen shift recordsLog kitchen shifts by date and Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner type with an assigned head chef and auto SHIFT/ sequence.
- Tray fulfillment metricFulfillment percentage is auto-computed from trays served versus trays planned per shift.
- Complaints registerRecord a complaint count per shift for service-quality tracking.
- Shift kanban boardA kanban grouped by shift type shows served/planned tray counts per shift.
- Shift performance pivotPivot shift date against shift type measuring trays served and complaints to monitor kitchen performance.
- Shift list totalsThe shift list sums planned trays, served trays and complaints across shifts.
Security & Roles
- Dietetics User roleA Dietetics/User group for kitchen and dietetics staff to prepare trays, record intake and view menus.
- Dietetics Manager roleA Dietetics/Manager group for clinical dietitians to configure menus, therapeutic diets and reports, implying the user role.
- Manager-gated configuration menuThe Configuration menu (menus, therapeutic diets, allergens) is restricted to the Dietetics Manager group.
- Model access control matrixPer-model create/read/write/unlink access rights are defined across user and manager groups via the access CSV.
- Automatic admin provisioningA post-init hook grants the admin user both the dietetics user and manager groups on install.
- Phase-4 ward menu gatingAll module menus are gated behind the base ward-dietary phase-4 group for staged rollout across the HMS suite.
What it keeps
- Menu Line Item
- Cyclical Inpatient Menu
- Therapeutic Diet Protocol
What it configures
- Dietary Allergen (EU/US major allergens)
- Patient Diet Order
- Patient Tray Ticket
- Nutrition Risk Assessment (MUST + NRS-2002)
- Kitchen Shift
Wards & Admissions
- Patient Diet Orders
- Nutrition Assessments
- Menus
- Tray Tickets
- Menu Items
- Kitchen Shifts
- Therapeutic Diets
- Allergens
It runs by itself
- Dietary: Generate next-day traysRuns daily
Roles it ships
- Dietetics / User
- Dietetics / Manager

Works with

What Dietary works with

Dietary shares one database with the rest of the Bridge HMS Suite and BridgeERP: these are the apps it already talks to, with nothing to buy in between.