[The organization of diet therapy from positions of development of patient-oriented health care]

The article discusses the problematic issues of the organization of medical nutrition of sick people both in medical organizations and outside of their stay, reflecting the current understanding of the organization of therapeutic nutrition as the main structural element of the patient-oriented health care system. The authors declare the need for an evidence-based assessment of the effectiveness of personalized diet therapy and the use of specialized enrichment of patients 'diet. The article presents the rationale for the correctness of using for this purpose a proven methodology for assessing the effectiveness of alternative technologies in healthcare. The integral efficiency indicator used in this methodology includes the calculation of the social satisfaction coefficient, which is proposed to be used by one of the levers of control from public organizations of patients, and above all their flagship All-Russian Union of Patients.