title: [Ethical issues of artificial nutritional support].
abstract: This review article discusses some ethical issues of clinical nutrition according to the Beauchamp and Childress principles of bioethics: "respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice".
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Allgemein- und Visceralchirurgie mit Abteilung Klinische Ernährung, Klinikum St. Georg GmbH, Leipzig.
authors.forename: Arved
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weimann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003657:Decision Making; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000941:ethics; D017041:Ethics Committees; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D007872:Legal Guardians; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics; D016224:Living Wills / Q000941:ethics; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000941:ethics; D018447:Medical Futility; D044623:Nutrition Therapy / Q000941:ethics*; D026684:Personal Autonomy