Pediatric Blue Book

Enhancing nutrition care for pediatric patients

The Pediatric Blue Book, or PBB, is a web application designed to transform how pediatric dietitians access and apply nutritional information. Currently, dietitians often must juggle outdated manuals, scattered online materials, and time-consuming manual calculations. PBB provides a streamlined, digital platform to help dietitians create precise and personalized nutrition plans faster and easier. By reducing errors, managing inefficiencies, and supporting evidence-based decision making, the Pediatric Blue Book helps dietitians focus on giving children the best chance to grow, recover, and thrive.

The PBB streamlines dieticians daily workflow through three main features: a nutritional need calculator, a custom formula generator, and an ingredient lookup table; it also supports an administrator interface to allow administrators to manage formulas and data quality. The nutritional need calculator allows dieticians to calculate nutritional needs based on the patient age, weight, and height and view the recommended nutrient intake values. With the custom formula generator, dieticians can combine multiple formulas while instantly seeing the nutrient impact of each change. Age and sex-specific dietary reference intakes help ensure accuracy. The lookup table will aid with clinical decision making. Streamlining the workflow will give dieticians the ability to refine and optimize nutrition plans, leading to improved patient outcomes while reducing documentation fatigue and manual workload.