Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content.
Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Vitamin deficiencies" and "Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) in infants and children" and "Society guideline links: Short bowel syndrome".)
International
●Summary points and consensus recommendations from the International Protein Summit (2017)
United States
●ASPEN: Consensus recommendations for refeeding syndrome (2020)
●ASPEN: Clinical guidelines on the validity of body composition assessment in clinical populations (2019)
●ASPEN: Standards for nutrition support – Adult hospitalized patients (2018)
●ASPEN: Consensus recommendation on safe practices for enteral nutrition therapy (2016)
●ASPEN: Parenteral nutrition safety consensus recommendations (2014)
●ASPEN: Standards for nutrition support for home and alternate site care (2014)
●ASPEN: Standards of practice for nutrition support pharmacists (2014)
●ACG: Guideline for the management of acute pancreatitis (2013)
●ASPEN: Standards of practice for nutrition support physicians (2012)
●American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): The role of endoscopy in enteral feeding (2011)
Europe
●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Micronutrient guideline (2022)
●ESPEN: Guideline on home parenteral nutrition (2020)
●ESPEN: Guideline on home enteral nutrition (2020)
●ESPEN: Guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit (2019)
●ESPEN: Guidelines on nutritional support for polymorbid internal medicine patients (2017)
●ESPEN: Expert group recommendations for action against cancer-related malnutrition (2017)
●ESPEN: Guideline on clinical nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease (2017)
●ESPEN: Guideline on clinical nutrition in surgery (2017)
●ESPEN: Guidelines on definitions and terminology of clinical nutrition (2017)
●ESPEN: Guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients (2017)
●ESPEN: Guidelines on nutrition in dementia (2015)
●European Respiratory Society (ERS): Statement on nutritional assessment and therapy in COPD (2014)
●ESPEN: Guidelines on parenteral nutrition (2009)
●ESPEN: Guidelines on enteral nutrition (2006)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on nutrition support for adults – Oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition (2006, updated 2017)
●British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA): Position statement on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) (2016)
●United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines: Nutritional management in head and neck cancer (2016)
●NICE: Quality standard on nutrition support in adults (2012)
Australia–New Zealand
●Australasian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN): Clinical practice guidelines
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM): Japanese version of nutrition therapy guidelines for critically ill patients – Condition by nutrition therapy (2017)
●[In Japanese] JSICM: Japanese version of nutrition therapy guidelines for critically ill patients – General (2016)
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Respiratory Therapy (JSRT): Nutrition management guidelines for mechanically ventilated patients with acute respiratory failure, 2011 edition (published 2012)
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