2006 年 64 巻 4 号 p. 213-220
The Nutrition Support Team (NST) based on the new “Potluck Party Method (PPM)” was devised in 1998 by Higashiguchi. The first trial operation of all-department NST using PPM was started at Suzuka General Hospital in Japan. The successful result of this trial resulted in the introduction in 2001 of the NST project by Japanese Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (JSPEN). This NST project has been widely accepted throughout the country; in only 5 years, 920 hospitals have participated in this project, and 658 hospitals have been operating NSTs under JSPEN authorization. Additionally, 137 hospitals have also been authorized to operate NSTs by Japan Society for Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition (JSMCN). The Japan Council for Nutritional Therapy (JCNT) was founded in September 2004 as a third party for fairly evaluating the quality of NST operation in each hospital. In addition, the medical fee was revised in Japan in April 2006, and a new medical fee for nutritional support of \120/day was newly established, making it necessary to improve the quality of NST in the near future.