ASPEN provides clinical guidance documents* to assist our members in providing safe nutrition care to patients. These documents are developed by content experts and approved by the ASPEN Board of Directors.
Our clinical guidelines are scientific, systematically developed, evidence-based, evidence-informed documents that provide practice recommendations to guide practitioner and patient decisions about nutrition and nutrition care practice. According to the best available evidence, in the absence of evidence, guidelines systematically outline the opinions of a large collection of experienced clinicians for the purposes of unifying nutrition and nutrition care and coordinating future research efforts.
ASPEN Guidelines Program Director and Editor in Chief: Liam McKeever, PhD, RDN, FASPEN
Read more about ASPEN’s Clinical Guideline Program, including methodology and projects under development
Our position papers present the official opinion of ASPEN on a particular topic.
Our special reports present ASPEN-generated clinical or public policy information that is important for ASPEN constituents and does not fall into any of the other categories.
Our practice standards are benchmarks for competent care performance. They define the structure and professional responsibilities needed to ensure patient safety and treatment success.
Our expert guidance documents may have different category names (i.e. consensus recommendations) as ASPEN Board-approved paper types have evolved over time. ASPEN is continually committed to producing highly rigorous clinical guidance.
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ASPEN endorses these key resources from other organizations that align with our mission, scope of practice, and quality standards:
- Cardenas D, Correia MITD, Ochoa JB, et al. Clinical Nutrition and Human Rights. An International Position Paper. Nutr Clin Pract. 2021;36(3):534-544. doi:10.1002/ncp.10667
- Baskin KM, Mermel LA, Saad TF, et al. Evidence-Based Strategies and Recommendations for Preservation of Central Venous Access in Children. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2019;43(5):591-614. doi:10.1002/jpen.1591
- Mechanick JI, Apovian C, Brethauer S, et al. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Nutrition, Metabolic, And Nonsurgical Support Of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Procedures – 2019 Update: Cosponsored By American Association Of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College Of Endocrinology, The Obesity Society, American Society For Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Obesity Medicine Association, and American Society Of Anesthesiologists – Executive Summary Endocr Pract. 2019;25(12):1346-1359. doi:10.4158/GL-2019-0406
- Mirtallo JM, Forbes A, McClave SA, et al. International consensus guidelines for nutrition therapy in pancreatitis. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2012;36(3):284-291. doi:10.1177/0148607112440823
- Jensen GL, Mirtallo J, Compher C, et al. Adult starvation and disease-related malnutrition: a proposal for etiology-based diagnosis in the clinical practice setting from the International Consensus Guideline Committee. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2010;34(2):156-159. doi:10.1177/0148607110361910
*These clinical guidance documents do not constitute medical or other professional advice and should not be taken as such. To the extent that the information herein may be used to assist in the care of patients, this is the result of the sole professional judgment of the attending healthcare professional whose judgment is the primary component of quality medical care. The information presented in these documents is not a substitute for the exercise of such judgment by the healthcare professional. These documents have been developed and reviewed by ASPEN committees or task forces and approved by the ASPEN Board of Directors.