Effective nutrition and dietetics care delivery hinges on a structured approach that ensures consistency, quality, and personalized attention. This chapter introduces the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) Model and its associated Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT), a pivotal framework and standardized language designed to help professionals deliver tailored nutrition and dietetics care. The NCP and NCPT have been developed and continually refined over years through global collaboration, led by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), with input from numerous dietetic associations around the world.
Additionally, the chapter will introduce the SNOMED CT NCPT Reference Set, which further enhances the ability of healthcare professionals to standardize and integrate nutrition and dietetics care into broader clinical systems, supporting interoperability and comprehensive patient care across settings.
At present, the SNOMED CT NCPT Reference Set (release of April 2024) contains the "problems" or nutrition diagnoses of the NCPT (edition 2020). Future iterations will include progressively more sections of the NCPT. The plan is to add next the nutrition intervention terms of NCPT, and last the nutrition assessment, monitoring and evaluation terms of NCPT.
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