Comments on Definitions for Meeting 3

Enteral Nutrition - I don't think its a good idea to use catheter/ stoma in the definition.  Placing a 'catheter' is considered poor practice in the UK as in practice, a catheter is the word used only for tubes into the bladder. Also although all tubes go into a stoma we don't tend to use use that word.  We used 'tube feeding' a lot.  We wouldn't ever consider feeding into a stoma with anything other than a feeding tube so perhaps stoma is not needed in the definition.

Does the definition need to state that enteral nutrition includes both 'gastric' and 'post pyloric' as the definition for parenteral goes into detail of where the feed is delivered? I imagine the gastric and post pyloric terms would be in the SNOMED tree as a child relationship?

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Online definition (collins) Dietary -

adjective:
of or relating to a diet

In the Oxford Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (2009) for Diet it says:  Strictly, a diet is simply the pattern of foods eaten; the normal or habitual intake of food of an individual or population.  Commonly used to mean a modified pattern of food consumption for some special purpose e.g. a slimming, therapeutic or low salt diet and sometimes named for the person who originated it.