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Left Over Food In Tray By Indoor Patients
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Hem Chandra, Arvind Srivastava, Leela Masih, K. Jamalddin. Left Over Food In Tray By Indoor Patients. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2006;19(4):219–220.
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Hospital diet plays important role in recovery from illness amongst indoor patients. Usually hospital diets are not well accepted. The refusal of food served, partly or whole may be due to many reasons. The refusal pattern of breakfast differs from lunch. The study conducted at SGPGIMS revealed that the refusal may be as high as 15.75% in case of breakfast and 19.50% in case of lunch. The major factors for refusal of breakfast were anorexia / vomiting (32%), hospitalization (17%), fasting for tests (12.25%), feeling of satiety (8%), fever (7%) etc.