Inpatient Nutritional care
The dietician performs ward rounds for the inpatient including ICU, MICU, SICU, etc. on a daily basis based on the references obtained from the treating doctor. The patient is screened using the ABCD method to assess the nutritional status to modify the diet as per disease condition. Patient/patient attender is counseled regarding the diet and provided with educational material for further monitoring and follow-up.
Outpatient Nutritional care
Outpatients are referred by the treating doctor to the dietician for dietary advice. The patient is screened and assessed based on their medical diagnosis, biochemical parameters, clinical parameters, dietary recall, etc. to provide a dietary prescription. The patient and attender are counseled to follow the prescribed diet with patient information on diet material.