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The delivery of nutrition support is a multidisciplinary, specialized practice which is utilized for almost all types of patients and extends beyond the hospital into alternative care sites such as long-term care facilities and homes. Differences in hospital size, patient population, healthcare delivery setting, local expertise, organizational structure and financial payment relationships dictate that there cannot be a single safe and effective system for providing nutrition support. Certain clinical activities are generally expected to reside in specific departments. One well-established model for providing nutrition support is the Nutrition Support Team (NST) (1,2). In its Standards, A.S.P.E.N. defines the NST as, “A multi-disciplinary group of health care professionals with expertise in nutrition who aid in the provision of nutrition support.” While all of the functions of a formal NST relative to patient care need to be performed, an NST is but one organizational approach to meet nutrition needs of patients. Dr. John Wesley has summarized the role and the perceived cost-effective benefits of nutrition support teams (1).
While other models may meet the needs of particular environments, the NST can be viewed as the de facto gold standard for delivering nutrition support. References:
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There are only 6/83 (7%) of functioning nutrition support teams in the Philippines and these are present only in Luzon (as of year 2006) |
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Challenge Update : From 7% the current number of NST has increased to 22%.
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