Can I adjust forecasting for a diet order? Can I adjust forecasting for an individual diet type, texture type, or fluid type?
No. Percentages forecasting automatically considers extended therapeutic substitute items as a result of resident/patient diet orders, but does not allow forecasting for a diet order (i.e., diet type/texture type combination) and does not allow forecasting for an individual diet type, texture type, or fluid type.
You will be required to determine the serving amounts of each therapeutic substitute item and then manually adjust the serving numbers of those items on the forecasting worksheet. For example, assume the following:
- The percentages forecasting is split between 60% for choice 1 items and 40% for choice 2 items.
- Ten residents are assigned the pureed texture type, resulting in six servings for the pureed chicken item in choice 1 and four servings for the pureed spaghetti item in choice 2.
If you needed both choices for the pureed texture type to be 100%, you would therefore have to access the forecasting worksheet and manually adjust the servings for the pureed chicken to 10 and the pureed spaghetti to 10. See Manually Adjusting a Serving Amount for more information and instructions.
Can I adjust forecasting for only certain days of the week?
No. If you need to adjust forecast quantities for specific days, you would have to manually adjust the serving numbers on the forecasting worksheet for those days; see Manually Adjusting Serving Amounts on a Worksheet.