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Planning hospital menus to provide a nutritionally adequate diet is currently based on the ad hoc methods of experience, and trial and error. Systematic methods to ensure nutritional adequacy at the planning stage are ignored, on the grounds of complexity. Linear programming can provide ‘optimum’ solutions to this kind of problem, but in the context of providing a hospital menu with several choices for each course, from a prospective list of many thousands of foods, the computing power required to find any but the trivial is immense. Systematic prospective planning, for the moment, is not possible.
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Clarke, M. (1990). Hospital Menu Analysis by Microcomputer. In: O’Moore, R., Bengtsson, S., Bryant, J.R., Bryden, J.S. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe ’90. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51659-7_151
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