Nutrition care process and model update : toward realizing people-centered care and outcomes management / William I. Swan, Angela Vivanti, Nancy A. Hakel-Smith, Brenda Hotson, Ylva Orrevall, Naomi Trostler, Kay Beck Howarter, Constantina Papoutsakis

The Nutrition Care Process (NCP) is a systematic method that nutrition and dietetics practitioners use to provide nutrition care. 1 In this article, nutrition and dietetics practitioners or professionals; dietitians; dietitians-nutritionists; and dietetic technicians, registered, are collectively referred to as professionals. The Nutrition Care Process Model (NCPM) describes the NCP by presenting the workflow of professionals in diverse individual and population care delivery settings. Implementation of the NCPM has been associated with several advantages, including use of a common framework for nutrition care and research, promotion of critical thinking, more-focused nutrition care documentation, increased acknowledgement of the value of nutrition care by other health care professionals, and improved application of evidence-based guidelines. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 Potential target audiences for the NCPM include practitioners, educators and students, professional credentialing agencies, health system accrediting agencies, health care funding organizations, payers, and clients.

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