• Mutlu Doganay, Kezban Akcay, Timucin Cil, Birgul Dag, Kubilay Demirag, Kutay Demirkan, Riza Haldun Gundogdu, Hasan Murat Gunduz, Cem Kaan Parsak, Mehmet Akif Topcuoglu, Melda Turkoglu, and Osman Abbasoglu.
• Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: drmdoganay@gmail.com.
• Nutrition. 2024 Feb 1; 118: 112269112269.

ObjectivesClinicians are in need of guidance that will ease the application of medical nutrition therapy. In order to facilitate the application and success of medical nutrition therapy, the Turkish Clinical Enteral & Parenteral Nutrition Society (KEPAN) planned a report that is short, is clear, and has clear-cut recommendations that will guide health care professionals in the indications, choice, practical application, follow-up, and stopping of enteral nutrition.MethodsThe enteral nutrition consensus report on enteral nutrition use in medical nutrition therapy was developed by a study group (12 working group academicians and 17 expert group academicians) under the organization of KEPAN. The enteral nutrition consensus report was generated in 5 online and face-to-face phases from December 2019 through October 2022. At the end (Delphi rounds), a total of 24 questions and subjects, recommendations, and comments were sent to the enteral nutrition working group and the expert group via e-mail. They were asked to score the criteria by using the Likert scale.ResultsThe first round of the study resulted in acceptance of all 24 recommendations. None of the criteria was rejected. Only some minor editing for wording was recommended by the panelists during the first and second rounds of the Delphi study. The final report was sent to all 29 panelists and was approved without any revision suggestions.ConclusionThis report provides 24 clear-cut recommendations in a question-answer format. We believe that this report could have a significant effect on the optimum use of enteral nutrition in the context of medical nutrition therapy when clinicians manage everyday patients.Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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