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The use of Oral Nutritional Therapy (ONS) can provide the macronutrients that patients need to maintain their nutrition, however their role in within stages of diseases, active disease, remission, perioperative, and maintenance in relation to other nutritional therapies, such as enteral nutrition or parenteral nutrition, is unclear. 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