THERAPEUTIC CLASS
What is clinical nutrition? Understanding the epistemological foundations of a new discipline
Although the therapeutic and economic efficacy of nutrition has been proven, optimal nutritional care is still scarce among hospital and ambulatory patients. Thus malnutrition is still highly prevalent. We identify as an underlying cause the absence of a common understanding of clinical nutrition as a discipline. The aim of this paper is to establish the epistemological foundations of clinical
nutrition and to characterize it as a science
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