Study on the Impact of the “H2H” Nutritional Management Model Based on the Internet Platform on the Nutritional Status and Quality of Life of Patients after Esophageal Cancer Surgery

Yufeng Pan, Manli Liu, Sijia Huang, Le Xia, Fan Yang, Yi Shen, Si Liu, Yanyan Fang, Meng Yang, Li Liu

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¹ National Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Prevention and Treatment in South China/Guangdong Clinical Medical Research Center for Malignant Tumors/Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Prevention and Treatment Center, Guangzhou 510060, Guangdong, China,

PAR 2026 , 10(3), 67–77; https://doi.org/10.26689/par.v10i3.15166

© 2026 by the Authors. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )

Abstract

Objective: To explore the influence of the “H2H” (Hospital to Home) nutrition management model based on the Internet platform on the nutritional status and quality of life of patients after esophageal cancer surgery, and to provide evidence-based evidence for the continuous nutrition management after esophageal cancer surgery. Methods: From August 2025 to April 2026, 138 postoperative patients with esophageal cancer in our hospital were randomly divided into a control group of 71 cases and an observation group of 67 cases by convenient sampling method. The control group received conventional nutritional management, while the observation group implemented the “H2H” nutritional management model based on the Internet platform on this basis. The intervention period was 3 months after discharge. The nutritional indicators, the score of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002) and the score of the Quality of Life Questionnaire for Cancer Patients (QLQ-C30) of the two groups of patients before the intervention (1 day before discharge) and after the intervention (3 months after discharge) were compared. Results: Before the intervention, there were no statistically significant differences in various nutritional indicators, NRS2002 scores and scores of each functional domain of QLQ-C30 between the two groups of patients (P > 0.05). After the intervention, the levels of body weight, prealbumin, serum albumin and hemoglobin in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05), and the standardized scores of physical, cognitive, emotional, social and role functions in the QLQ-C30 scale were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in transferrin levels and NRS2002 scores between the two groups (P > 0.05). Conclusion: The “H2H” nutrition management model based on the Internet platform can effectively improve the core nutritional indicators of postoperative patients with esophageal cancer, enhance their quality of life, and has high patient compliance. It is an efficient postoperative continuous nutrition management model and is worthy of promotion and application in the field of clinical tumor care.

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