Dietary Orders and Meal Consumption in a Cancer Specialty Hospital
MAO Zhiyin
QIN Jin
Abstract：Objective To investigate the types and proportions of basic diets and therapeutic diets prescribed to inpatients at a tertiary Grade A cancer specialty hospital,and to provide a reference for optimizing the provision of basic and therapeutic diets in cancer specialty hospitals and oncology departments of general hospitals.Methods Dietary orders for inpatients hospitalized from January to December 2024 were extracted from the Neusoft electronic medical record system.SPSS 22.0 was used for statistical analysis.The x2 test was applied to compare the proportion of therapeutic dietary orders between the cancer specialty hospitals and general hospitals,as well as to compare differences in the issuance and implementation of therapeutic dietary orders across different months within the hospital.Results In 2024,the average daily number of dietary orders at the cancer specialty hospital was(3 651.56±33.08)patients,among which therapeutic diet orders accounted for(951.30±87.01)patients,representing 25.98％of all dietary orders.Specifically,diabetic diets accounted for(288.55±2.81)patients(7.90％),low-salt and low-fat diets for(603.28±5.72)patients(16.52％),enteral tube feeding diets for(16.48±0.22)patients(0.45％),low-iodine diets for(15.64±0.33)patients(1.01％),and other therapeutic diets for(24.86±0.29)patients(0.68％).The proportion of therapeutic diet orders in this cancer specialty hospital(25.98％)was lower than that in general hospitals(32.35％)(P＜0.01).Among therapeutic diets,low-salt and low-fat diets ranked first,followed by diabetic diets.Moreover,the meal consumption rate of therapeutic diets(2.47％)was lower than that in general hospitals(75.30％)(P＜0.01).Conclusion Low-salt and low-fat diets and diabetic diets constitute the largest proportions of therapeutic dietary orders in the cancer specialty hospitals.However,their meal consumption rates remain low.The clinical nutrition department and the hospital cafeteria may enhance the diabetic and low-salt low-fat diets by aligning them with the regular and soft diet recipes,and may improve tube-feeding regimens by incorporating liquid diets,thereby increasing patient meal participation rates in cancer-focused hospitals or general hospital oncology units.
Keywords：dietary ordertherapeutic dietdiabetic dietlow-salt low-fat diet
Publication Date：2026-08-28
Online Publishing Date：2026-09-12(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 2915-2918 )