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Noncompliance/Nonadherence With Home Nutrition Support: An Underrecognized Clinical Dilemma
Author(s) -
Kirby Donald F.,
Mitchell Ronelle,
Hendrickson Eileen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/0884533617730001
Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , intensive care medicine , dilemma , critically ill , artificial nutrition , population , environmental health , philosophy , epistemology
Failure to administer enteral nutrition, intravenous fluids, and/or parenteral nutrition solutions can have deleterious effects on patients who have been prescribed such therapies. However, it is not well understood why patients requiring nutrition support would be noncompliant or nonadherent to these often life‐benefiting therapies. This article explores these issues in a large home nutrition support population.