Practical guidelines for the administration of artificial nutrition at home (home nutrition) (SAEPE; Swiss Work Group for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition)

The number of outpatients with major difficulties in feeding themselves is constantly growing. This results into severe malnutrition resulting in increased infection rate, physical disabilities, skin sores, increased therapeutic costs and poor quality of life. Home nutritional support can cover all nutritional needs but requires appropriate indications, optimal technical management and cautious ethical evaluation. In addition, the overall costs should be covered by an insurance at the time of home nutritional support prescription. Swiss home nutritional support recommendations for practising physicians are presented.

Published by Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 1995. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.

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