![]() ![]() The general objectives are to increase the awareness of physicians, dietitians, nurses, kitchen managers, and stakeholders towards the pivotal role of hospital food in hospital care, to contribute to patient safety within nutritional care, to improve coverage of nutritional needs by hospital food, and reduce the risk of malnutrition and its related complications.Īcute care Diets Food intake Malnutrition Monitoring.Ĭopyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. The terminology of the different useful diets is defined. Particular conditions such as patients with dysphagia, older patients, gastrointestinal diseases, abdominal surgery, diabetes, and obesity, are discussed to guide the practitioner toward the best evidence based therapy. We propose a systematic approach to adapt the hospital food to the nutritional status and potential food allergy or intolerances. The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) proposes here evidence-based recommendations regarding the organization of food catering, the prescriptions and indications of diets, as well as monitoring of food intake at hospital, rehabilitation center, and nursing home, all of these by taking into account the patient perspectives. underfeeding) and increased risk of malnutrition. Therapeutic diets (low salt, gluten-free, texture and consistency modified, …) are associated with decreased energy delivery (i.e. Often prescriptions are made independently from the evaluation of nutritional status, and without taking into account the nutritional status. The Gesundheit Institute, a not-for-profit health care organization chartered under the Nonprofit Corporation Act of the District of Columbia, is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of. The Gesundheit Institute is a project in holistic medical care. Hospital diets are rarely prescribed by physicians, and sometimes the choices of diets are based on arbitrary reasons. Gesundheit Institute 1,202 followers on LinkedIn. In hospitals through Europe and worldwide, the practices regarding hospital diets are very heterogeneous. 11 University of Hohenheim, Institute of Nutritional Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany.10 Department of Dietetics, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble, France.9 Clinical Nutrition Unit, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.8 Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH, Humboldt Klinikum und Klinikum Spandau, Berlin, Germany.7 Faculty of Health Sciences Kristianstad University Kristianstad Sweden, Sweden.6 Unité de Nutrition, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.5 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.4 Riga Stradins University, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvia.3 Department of Nutrition, Limassol General Hospital, Cyprus.Electronic address: 2 Department of Surgery, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. 1 Unité de Nutrition, CHU Rennes, INRAE, INSERM, Univ Rennes, Nutrition Metabolisms and Cancer Institute, NuMeCan, Rennes, France. ![]()
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