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This document is the “National Enteral Nutrition Practice Guidelines for Adults” published by South Africa’s National Department of Health in 2016. It provides guidance for public health establishments on standardised, quality nutrition services, including nutritional assessment, nutritional intervention (including indications, access routes, formulations, initiation and safety), dietary recommendations, disease-related conditions, stopping tube feeds, monitoring, complications, and home-based enteral nutrition. The text also includes copyright and distribution/permission conditions, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements section listing contributors and the Director-General of Health (MP Matsoso).

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City of Tshwane, Gauteng, Mpumalanga

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Document title: National Enteral Nutrition Practice Guidelines for Adults
Country/issuer: National Department of Health, South Africa
Intended use: support nutrition activities; freely quote/reproduce/distribute with acknowledgement; no remuneration distribution; permission required for format changes
Prepared and obtainable free of charge from: Directorate: Nutrition, Private Bag X828, Pretoria 0001; Tel (012) 395 9621; Fax 086 632 8484; www.health.gov.za
Scope sections include: nutritional assessment; nutritional intervention; dietary recommendations; disease-related conditions; stopping a tube feed; monitoring; home-based enteral nutrition
Annexures include: access routes; immunonutrition recommendations; ICU checklist
Acknowledgements signed by: MP Matsoso (Director General: Health)
National Department of Health (South Africa)
Directorate: Nutrition
MP Matsoso
Engela Francis
Vanessa Kotze
Caida MacDougall
Nolene Naicker
Andiswa Ngqaka
Hanlie Pohl
Frances Van Schalkwyk
Steve Biko Academic Hospital
University of Pretoria
Sefako Makgatho Medical University
Kalafong Hospital
University of Pretoria
Directorate: Affordable Medicines and the National Essential Medicines List Committee
Critical Care Society of Southern Africa
South African Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in South Africa
provincial nutrition units