Guidelines & Clinical Resources

These documents are designed to assist practitioners in providing safe, efficacious nutrition care to patients. The Guidelines and Standards make specific practice recommendations based upon a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of all available scientific data. 

Clinical Practice Library

ASPEN has been publishing Standards of Practice, Clinical Guidelines Statements, and other Documents for more than 30 years. The Clinical Practice Library allows access to these board of directors approved documents which have been developed to assist practitioners in providing safe, efficacious nutrition care to patients. The Guidelines and Standards make specific practice recommendations based upon a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of all available scientific data.

Featured Articles

A.S.P.E.N. Parenteral Nutrition Safety Consensus Recommendations

A.S.P.E.N. Clinical Guidelines: Parenteral Nutrition Ordering, Order Review, Compounding, Labeling, and Dispensing  

A.S.P.E.N. Enteral Nutrition Practice Recommendations

A.S.P.E.N. Position Paper Recommendations for Changes in Commercially Available Parenteral Multivitamin and Multi–Trace Element Products

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Standards of Practice for Nutrition Support Pharmacists

Consensus Statement of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Indicators Recommended for the Identification and Documentation of Pediatric Malnutrition