On January 19, 2016 the Global Leadership Conversation: Addressing Malnutrition was held at the ASPEN Conference.9 Key breakthroughs at that meeting led to the development of GLIM:

It was recognized that there was considerable consensus among stakeholders around many malnutrition diagnosis issues

There was strong commitment for reaching broader global consensus in defining and characterizing malnutrition

A core leadership committee with representatives of several of the global clinical nutrition societies; ASPEN (www.nutritioncare.org), ESPEN (www.espen.org), FELANPE (www.felanpeweb.org) and PENSA (www.pensa‐online.org) was constituted to form GLIM. The core GLIM leadership committee then created a larger supporting working group comprised of invited members that brought additional global diversity and expertise to the consensus effort.

It was agreed that a series of face‐to‐face meetings, telephone conferences, and email communications would be used to delineate the GLIM approach.

The first full meeting of the GLIM extended working group was held September 19, 2016 at the ESPEN Congress.10 Highlighted objectives included consensus development of evidence‐based criteria suitable to diverse clinical settings, global dissemination of consensus criteria, and the priority to seek adoption by leading diagnosis classification and coding entities across the globe. It was also agreed that the desired approach to malnutrition diagnosis should be simple and include clinically relevant diagnostic criteria that will be appropriate for application by all healthcare professionals using methods that are widely available. The intent was also to promote global use of consensus criteria that can be readily used with other approaches and additional criteria of regional preference.
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