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Practice Guideline
. 2022 Feb;41(2):468-488.
doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.10.018. Epub 2021 Nov 24.

ESPEN practical guideline: Home enteral nutrition

Stephan C Bischoff  1 , Peter Austin  2 , Kurt Boeykens  3 , Michael Chourdakis  4 , Cristina Cuerda  5 , Cora Jonkers-Schuitema  6 , Marek Lichota  7 , Ibolya Nyulasi  8 , Stéphane M Schneider  9 , Zeno Stanga  10 , Loris Pironi  11
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Practice Guideline

ESPEN practical guideline: Home enteral nutrition

Stephan C Bischoff et al. Clin Nutr. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

This ESPEN practical guideline will inform physicians, nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, caregivers and other home enteral nutrition (HEN) providers in a concise way about the indications and contraindications for HEN, as well as its implementation and monitoring. This guideline will also inform interested patients requiring HEN. Home parenteral nutrition is not included but will be addressed in a separate ESPEN guideline. The guideline is based on the ESPEN scientific guideline published before, which consists of 61 recommendations that have been reproduced and renumbered, along with the associated commentaries that have been shorted compared to the scientific guideline. Evidence grades and consensus levels are indicated. The guideline was commissioned and financially supported by ESPEN and the members of the guideline group were selected by ESPEN.

Keywords: Enteral formula; Home enteral nutrition; Monitoring; Nutrition support team; Tube feeding.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest The expert members of the working group were accredited by the ESPEN Guidelines Group, the ESPEN Education and Clinical Practice Committee, and the ESPEN executive. All expert members have declared their individual conflicts of interest according to the rules of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). If potential conflicts were indicated, they were reviewed by the ESPEN guideline officers and, in cases of doubts, by the ESPEN executive. None of the expert panel had to be excluded from the working group or from co-authorship because of serious conflicts. The conflict of interest forms are stored at the ESPEN guideline office and can be reviewed with legitimate interest upon request to the ESPEN executive.

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