Clinical nutrition and human rights. An International position paper
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Clinical nutrition and human rights. An International position paper. / Cardenas, Diana; Correia, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson; Ochoa, Juan B; Hardy, Gil; Rodriguez-Ventimilla, Dolores; Bermúdez, Charles E; Papapietro, Karin; Hankard, Régis; Briend, André; Ungpinitpong, Winai; Zakka, Katerina Mary; Pounds, Teresa; Cuerda, Cristina; Barazzoni, Rocco.
In: Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2021, p. 534-544.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Clinical nutrition and human rights. An International position paper
AU - Cardenas, Diana
AU - Correia, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson
AU - Ochoa, Juan B
AU - Hardy, Gil
AU - Rodriguez-Ventimilla, Dolores
AU - Bermúdez, Charles E
AU - Papapietro, Karin
AU - Hankard, Régis
AU - Briend, André
AU - Ungpinitpong, Winai
AU - Zakka, Katerina Mary
AU - Pounds, Teresa
AU - Cuerda, Cristina
AU - Barazzoni, Rocco
N1 - © 2021 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism and Wiley and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The International Working Group for Patients' Right to Nutritional Care presents its position paper regarding nutritional care as a human right intrinsically linked to the right to food and the right to health. All people should have access to food and evidence-based medical nutrition therapy including artificial nutrition and hydration. In this regard, the hospitalized malnourished ill should mandatorily have access to screening, diagnosis, nutritional assessment, with optimal and timely nutritional therapy in order to overcome malnutrition associated morbidity and mortality, while reducing the rates of disease-related malnutrition. This right does not imply there is an obligation to feed all patients at any stage of life and at any cost. On the contrary, this right implies, from an ethical point of view, that the best decision for the patient must be taken and this may include, under certain circumstances, the decision not to feed. Application of the human rights-based approach to the field of clinical nutrition will contribute to the construction of a moral, political, and legal focus to the concept of nutritional care. Moreover, it will be the cornerstone to the rationale of political and legal instruments in the field of clinical nutrition.
AB - The International Working Group for Patients' Right to Nutritional Care presents its position paper regarding nutritional care as a human right intrinsically linked to the right to food and the right to health. All people should have access to food and evidence-based medical nutrition therapy including artificial nutrition and hydration. In this regard, the hospitalized malnourished ill should mandatorily have access to screening, diagnosis, nutritional assessment, with optimal and timely nutritional therapy in order to overcome malnutrition associated morbidity and mortality, while reducing the rates of disease-related malnutrition. This right does not imply there is an obligation to feed all patients at any stage of life and at any cost. On the contrary, this right implies, from an ethical point of view, that the best decision for the patient must be taken and this may include, under certain circumstances, the decision not to feed. Application of the human rights-based approach to the field of clinical nutrition will contribute to the construction of a moral, political, and legal focus to the concept of nutritional care. Moreover, it will be the cornerstone to the rationale of political and legal instruments in the field of clinical nutrition.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Artificial nutrition therapy
KW - Disease
KW - Disease-related malnutrition
KW - Food
KW - Health
KW - Human rights
U2 - 10.1002/ncp.10667
DO - 10.1002/ncp.10667
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34013590
VL - 36
SP - 534
EP - 544
JO - Nutrition in Clinical Practice
JF - Nutrition in Clinical Practice
SN - 0884-5336
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 269502855