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• ESPEN Fact-Sheets

  ESPEN Fact Sheets

  
  ESPEN wants to have a new communication channel, not only with its members, but also with other people interested in clinical nutrition and metabolism. Therefore, we want to share with you the launch of the first ESPEN fact sheets.

  Stay tuned to our usual information channels because we will tell you many more things about nutrition and metabolism in our ESPEN fact sheets.

  Click here for LLL ESPEN Diploma in Clinical Nutrition

  Click here for Nutritional risk screening (Versión en Español)

  Click here for GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition (Versión en Español)

  Click here for Disease Related Malnutrition (DRM) ESPEN Fact-Sheet

  Click here for nutritionDay (nDay) ESPEN Fact-Sheet

  Click here for Nutritional Care is a human right ESPEN Fact-Sheet

  Click here for Nutrition Education in Medical Schools (NEMS) ESPEN Fact-Sheet

  Click here for Sarcopenic Obesity ESPEN Fact-Sheet

• ESPEN Guidelines Update

  Vote now for two new ESPEN guideline updates!

   

  
  ESPEN Guidelines to vote on!

  
  The online questionnaires for the upcoming “ESPEN-ESPGHAN-ECFS Guideline on nutrition care for cystic fibrosis” coordinated by Michael Wilschanski, as well as the “ESPEN Guideline on nutrition in dementia” coordinated by Dorothee Volkert are now open for voting. For access please contact the ESPEN guideline office guidelines-office@espen. org
  
   
• Global Leadership Initiative

  

  Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM)

  GLIM criteria

  4 years of the GLIM criteria: Where are we? Results of the GLIM survey. Tommy Cederholm
  
  A Clinically Relevant Diagnosis Code for “Malnutrition in Adults” Is Needed in ICD-11
  
  A Framework for Diagnosing Adult Malnutrition

  Publications

  GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition – A consensus report from the global clinical nutrition community (PDF)

  Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM): Guidance on validation of the operational criteria for the diagnosis of protein energy malnutrition in adults (PDF)

  Videos

  GLIM Educational Series Part 1: What is GLIM?
  This video provides an overview of GLIM and covers how the criteria were determined. It also reviews in detail each of the 5 criteria that make up the GLIM diagnostic framework, and covers key points on how GLIM is positioned within nutrition care.

  GLIM Educational Series Part 2: Conducting Studies to Validate the GLIM Criteria
  This video is focused on supporting researchers to validate the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria and framework for documenting malnutrition.

  GLIM Educational Series Part 3: Reviewing GLIM Articles
  This video discusses key principles in reviewing GLIM articles for publication. Key points for retrospective and prospective studies are reviewed.

  The GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition. Prof Tommy Cederholm.
  GLIM started in 2016 as an initiative of the 4 big clinical nutrition societies in the world (ESPEN, ASPEN, FELANPE and PENSA) to create a consensus on malnutrition definition.