Dietitian App User Manual

Key features

• Create a new patient or client profile.
• Record identifying details such as patient/client ID, sex, date of birth, height, and weight where relevant.
• Retrieve saved profiles for later review.
• Use saved patient details across nutrition analysis, growth tracking, anthropometry, and calculators.

How to use

1. Open Patients from the top navigation.
2. Create a new patient profile or search for an existing profile.
3. Check that the patient/client ID is entered consistently.
4. Save the profile before moving to other clinical tools.

Key features

• Client-friendly food diary entry.
• Meal, snack, drink, and portion recording.
• Free-text notes for symptoms, appetite, timing, or other details.
• Designed for intake collection before clinician review.

How to use

1. Open Client Food Diary.
2. Ask the client to enter foods, drinks, portions, and notes across the day.
3. Review the completed diary before using it for clinical interpretation.
4. Transfer or interpret the information within Diet History Analysis where appropriate.

Key features

• Search foods from the food composition database.
• Enter foods using standard portions or gram amounts.
• Group foods by meal occasion such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and other intake.
• Review daily macronutrient totals including energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate, and other selected nutrients.
• Review selected micronutrient totals including nutrients such as fibre, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, folate, vitamin B12, vitamin D, vitamin C, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, saturated fat, and sugars where available.
• Compare intake with NRV targets based on available patient details.
• Save and retrieve diet histories by patient/client ID.

How to use

1. Open Diet History from the top navigation.
2. Select or enter the patient/client details.
3. Search for a food and choose the best matching item.
4. Select a portion or enter grams manually.
5. Choose the meal occasion and add the food to the diet history.
6. Repeat until the intake record is complete.
7. Review meal totals, daily totals, and NRV comparison outputs.
8. Save the analysis so it can be retrieved later.

Key features

• Record serial height, weight, and BMI measurements.
• Plot growth trends over time.
• Review centiles and z-scores for paediatric growth assessment.
• Retrieve saved growth records using patient/client ID or date of birth.
• Edit or delete saved measurements where required.
• Support clinical review of growth trajectory rather than relying on a single measurement.

How to use

1. Open Growth Tracking.
2. Create or retrieve the patient’s saved growth record.
3. Enter sex, date of birth, measurement date, height, and weight.
4. Add the measurement to the chart.
5. Review height-for-age, weight-for-age, and BMI-for-age outputs where available.
6. Use the trend over time to support clinical interpretation.

Key features

• Adult BMI and weight status interpretation.
• Adult ideal body weight support.
• Paediatric and adolescent ideal body weight support.
• Growth centile and z-score assessment where available.
• Shared patient details to reduce duplicate data entry.

How to use

1. Open Anthropometry.
2. Enter or confirm patient details such as sex, age, height, and weight.
3. Select the relevant anthropometry tool.
4. Review calculated outputs and interpretation prompts.
5. Interpret results alongside clinical history, growth trajectory, and measurement accuracy.

Key features

• Fluid requirement calculator.
• Energy requirement calculator.
• Protein requirement calculator.
• NRV calculator for selected nutrients.
• Patient detail fields for age, sex, height, weight, pregnancy, and lactation where relevant.
• Transparent outputs to support clinical review.

How to use

1. Open Nutrient Requirement Calculators.
2. Enter the patient details required for the selected calculator.
3. Choose the calculator tab, such as fluid, energy, protein, or NRV.
4. Review the estimated requirement.
5. Adjust clinically where needed for illness, growth goals, activity, losses, treatment plan, or local guidance.

Key features

• Diabetes-specific clinical support tools.
• Structured information to assist dietetic assessment and review.
• Designed to sit alongside the broader nutrition, growth, and biochemistry tools.

How to use

1. Open Diabetes from the top navigation.
2. Select the relevant diabetes tool or reference section.
3. Enter patient details where required.
4. Use outputs as clinical support only and interpret them in context.

Key features

• Search nutrition products by name, brand, or category.
• Review product indications, presentation, age range, flavours, and supplement type where available.
• Review macronutrient, micronutrient, allergen, ingredient, preparation, and clinical notes where available.
• Support comparison of formulas, supplements, modular products, thickened products, and disease-specific products.

How to use

1. Open Formulary.
2. Search for a product or browse by category.
3. Open the product card to review available details.
4. Compare products based on the patient’s clinical needs.
5. Confirm product details against manufacturer information before clinical use.

Key features

• Structured biochemistry reference information.
• Markers grouped into clinical categories such as full blood count, iron studies, inflammation, electrolytes, renal function, liver function, bone/minerals, vitamins, trace elements, glucose/diabetes, and lipids.
• Reference ranges and interpretation prompts where available.
• Support for nutrition-focused pathology review.

How to use

1. Open Biochemistry.
2. Search or browse for the relevant marker.
3. Review the reference range and interpretation notes.
4. Interpret results using the reporting laboratory range, patient age, clinical context, inflammation, medications, and local policy.

Key features

• Restricted access for authorised admin users only.
• Product or content management functions where available.
• Support app maintenance and data review.

How to use

1. Open Admin from the top navigation.
2. Sign in with an authorised admin account.
3. Use the available admin tools carefully.
4. Check changes before saving because admin updates may affect what users see in the app.