Annual Report 2022
Nutrition Management Office
Haruka Chitose, Mihoko Inoue, Yuko Nagasu, Ranna Cho, Miki Kuwana, Oda Rika, Kengo Hayashi, Miu Saito, Haruka Tamaribuchi, Miki Muraoka, Mariko Suma, Beiderman Nadia, Satoshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Hirakawa, Kenichi Koshikawa, Takahiro Takahashi, Hideki Ogiwara, Akio Sairenzi , Hideki Takano
Introduction
From April 2022 to March 2023, we focused on implementing cancer nutrition guidance. This was done as an effort to increase the amount of nutrition guidance and improve quality.
We have established and implemented a system for nutritional guidance by a registered dietitian who has expertise with outpatient chemotherapy patients.
The Team and What We Do
Hospitalized patient meals totaled 334,454 during this period, and we provided nutrition guidance to 6,994 individuals. Regarding discussions with Nutrition Support Team (NST), there were an average of 177 new requests per month (Table 1).
Our long-running cooking classes could not be held as planned due to the COVID-19 infection epidemic. During this time, in 2019, the recipe search site "CHEER!" has opened. We made a leap forward by creating three new recipe videos and posting them on our site. It aims to help cancer patients and their families manage the symptoms of cancer that affect their diet.
Table 1. Number of NST consultations from April 2022 to March 2023
Research Activities
During this time, we compiled research into our profession into a paper, which was published in "Palliative Medicine Report". The content is a survey of the experiences of registered dietitians involved in palliative care and burnout syndrome. This survey was conducted among registered dietitians at cancer treatment centers across the country.
Education
We are entrusted with the clinical training by 5 universities, while implementing COVID-19 outbreak control measures during this period.
In human resource development, we have strengthened support so that we can obtain professional qualifications certified by academic societies. This resulted in three persons becoming JSPEN Certified Nutrition Support Team Specialist Therapists, and one becoming a JSMCN Certified Metabolic and Clinical Registered Dietitian during the period.
Future Prospects
We plan to hold lectures not only for the local community but also for many people on the impact of cancer treatment and cancer prevention, and we would like to disseminate practical know-how.
In addition, we will continue to develop nutrition guidance methods and nutrition guidance information tools to improve the quality of nutrition management for inpatients and outpatients.
List of papers published in 2022
Journal
1. Chitose H, Kuwana M, Miura T, Inoue M, Nagasu Y, Shimizu R, Hattori Y, Uehara Y, Kosugi K, Matsumoto Y. A Japanese Nationwide Survey of Nutritional Counseling for Cancer Patients and Risk Factors of Burnout among Registered Dietitians. Palliative medicine reports, 3:211-219, 2022