ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical Nutrition in cancer
- Study type
- Clinical guideline
- Study name
- ESPEN Practical Guideline
- Design
- Practical clinical guideline (shortened from the ESPEN scientific guidelines and converted into flowcharts)
- Sample size
- 43 recommendations
- Source
- Clinical Nutrition · 2021
In plain words
This document is a guide for doctors, nurses and dietitians to assess and manage the nutrition of people with cancer well. It gives 43 recommendations in short form and as flowcharts. Be sure to discuss the right eating plan for you with your treatment team and a dietitian.
Key points
Study population
This guideline was developed for all professionals who work with cancer patients, including physicians, dietitians, nutritionists and nurses. Its subject is the nutritional and metabolic care of patients with neoplastic disease.
Endpoints
This is not a clinical trial and has no endpoint. Its aim is to give practical recommendations for diagnosing nutritional status and for the nutritional and metabolic management of cancer patients.
Safety and side effects
Not applicable; this document is a guideline and does not report adverse events.
Clinical significance and place in guidelines
This guideline is the short, practical version of the ESPEN scientific guidelines and provides a tool for assessing nutritional status and delivering optimal nutritional care to cancer patients. The abstract does not show the details of each recommendation; the full text should be consulted for the exact content of the recommendations and the levels of evidence. Its place in national guidelines or those of other societies should be checked separately.
Limitations
The abstract gives only the number of recommendations (43), not the text or level of evidence of each one; the detailed recommendations are therefore not included on this card and should be extracted from the full text. This document is a practical summary of the ESPEN scientific guidelines, not a new systematic review.
This summary was prepared by the editorial team from the published paper; the original paper is the final reference. Read the original abstract on PubMed.