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Optimizing Integration of Nutrition Into Patient Care Through Physician Leadership
Author(s) -
Kushner Robert F.,
Graham Toby,
Hegazi Refaat,
Jensen Gordon,
Marik Paul,
Merritt Russell
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1941-2444
pISSN - 0148-6071
DOI - 10.1177/0148607110373931
Subject(s) - medicine , competence (human resources) , clinical nutrition , parenteral nutrition , terminology , medical nutrition therapy , nursing , health care , family medicine , medical education , intensive care medicine , psychology , pathology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , economics , economic growth
This presentation addresses the importance of using standardized terminology to describe the physician who specializes in clinical nutrition, definitions used by the 3 nutrition boards to describe the physician who is specializing in the field of clinical nutrition, differentiating “competence” from “expertise” in medical nutrition, defining the functions of medical nutrition team members, and describing the unique role of physician nutritionists in new medical nutrition teams.