The Metaparadigm of Clinical Dietetics

A Metaparadigm* of Clinical Dietetics was proposed and tested, demonstrating that the proposed domains, as characterized, were descriptive of the body of knowledge used by practitioners. Some knowledge was perceived as unique to the discipline, some perceived as shared with other health professionals and nutritional scientists. This book describes potential applications for the profession of Clinical Dietetics. *The most abstract expression of the global concerns of a profession