Nutrient and Cost Optimization in Menu Planning at an Apex Tertiary Care Hospital Using Operational Research Techniques.
Introduction: Menu planning involves meticulous customised designing of nutrients to fulfill the dietetic needs of patients with various clinical profiles admitted in the Hospital. The goal of the diet problem is to select a set of foods that will satisfy a set of daily nutritional requirement of pa...
| Publicado en: | Medico-Legal Update Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 1155 - 1162 |
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