ESPEN practical guideline: Home enteral nutrition

Stephan C Bischoff; Peter Austin; Kurt Boeykens; Michael Chourdakis; Cristina Cuerda; Cora Jonkers-Schuitema; Marek Lichota; Ibolya Nyulasi; Stéphane M Schneider; Zeno Stanga; Loris Pironi

doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2021.10.018

ESPEN practical guideline: Home enteral nutrition

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

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University of Hohenheim, Institute of Nutritional Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany. Electronic address: bischoff.stephan@uni-hohenheim.de.
² Pharmacy Department, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK, University College London School of Pharmacy, London, UK.
³ AZ Nikolaas Hospital, Nutrition Support Team, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
⁴ School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵ Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Nutrition Unit, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Amsterdam University Medical Center Location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁷ Intestinal Failure Patients Association "Appetite for Life", Cracow, Poland.
⁸ Department of Nutrition, Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport, Latrobe University, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Australia.
⁹ Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
¹⁰ Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Switzerland.
¹¹ Alma Mater Studiorum -University of Bologna, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Italy; IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Centre for Chronic Intestinal Failure, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Unit, Italy.

PMID: 35007816
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.10.018

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.

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Consensus
Enteral Nutrition / standards*
Gastroenterology / standards
Home Care Services / standards*
Humans
Societies, Scientific