Official guidance & reports
NICE guidance on assessment and refeeding risk
Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition (CG32)
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What this source adds
Risk assessment considers nutritional intake, weight history, body size, electrolytes and other clinical factors. High-risk care requires appropriately trained professionals.
Keep these limits in view
The criteria are not a home-fasting clearance tool, a universal safe-duration threshold or a self-directed refeeding recipe. The guidance is not an endorsement of prolonged fasting.
Understand the context
- Evidence type
- Clinical guidance for nutrition support and risk assessment
- Population or scope
- Adults who are malnourished or at risk and need nutrition-support assessment
- Comparison
- Clinical assessment guidance, not a trial comparing fasting schedules.
- Measured outcomes
- Recognition of malnutrition and refeeding risk, and professionally managed nutrition support.