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Nielsen LP, Thomsen KH, Alleslev C, Mikkelsen S, Holst M. Implementation of nutritional care in hospitals: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators using implementation theory. Scand J Caring Sci 2024. [PMID: 38520146 DOI: 10.1111/scs.13255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/25/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024]
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BACKGROUND Disease-related malnutrition is prevalent among hospitalised patients, but not all patients achieve the needed nutritional care. At a Danish University Hospital, focus has been on implementing nutritional practices based on clinical guidelines, but there is continuously variation between the wards regarding the quality of nutritional care. AIM The aim of this study was to identify the potential barriers and facilitators for implementation of the clinical guidelines for nutritional practices and to recommend suggestions for development of nutritional practices, using a theoretical implementation strategy. METHOD The design was a qualitative interview study of employees at a Danish University Hospital, using a semi-structured interview guide. The participants were nurses, nurse's assistant, nurse nutrition expert, head nurse and dieticians. We recruited 11 employees, representing eight different wards. FINDINGS The analysis identified six themes: (1) clear allocation of responsibilities and committed management enhances nutrition practices, (2) leadership support is essential, (3) physical settings and tools affect possibilities for action, (4) selection of equivalent staff is core, (5) teaching promotes the knowledge and skills and (6) a dietitian in the ward facilitates implementation of nutritional care. Barriers and facilitators among the themes were identified and has led to suggestions to strengthen nutritional care, based on implementation theory. CONCLUSION Various factors were identified as having impact on the implementation of nutrition practices and different suggestions have emerged to accommodate those factors, as well as to apply an implementation strategy to facilitate change in practice.
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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Hospitality through negotiations: The performing of everyday meal activities among nursing staff and meal hosts. A qualitative study. Int J Gastron Food Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgfs.2022.100478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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'Prevent undernutrition and prescribe oral nutritional supplements correctly': an educational intervention for district nurses. Prim Health Care Res Dev 2019; 20:e152. [PMID: 31813385 PMCID: PMC7003523 DOI: 10.1017/s1463423619000690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate district nurses’ (DN) perceived nutritional care and actual level of knowledge about nutritional care before and after a continuing educational intervention. Background: Nutritional treatment is an important part of nursing care, and health professionals responsible for nutritional care for older adults must therefore have sufficient understanding of nutritional problems to provide appropriate support. Previous research has shown that nutritional problems frequently go unrecognized and that health care personnel often lacks knowledge about nutritional care and relevant methods of assessing nutritional status. However, little is known about DNs’ knowledge about nutritional care. Methods: An evaluative study with a study-specific questionnaire administered before and after a 2.5-day continuing educational course for DNs in primary health care in Stockholm County, Sweden. The course was given over a period of two to three months. The questionnaire measured DNs’ perceived nutritional care and actual level of knowledge about nutritional care. Findings: A total of 456 DNs completed the questionnaire both before and after the intervention. Participants’ mean age was 50 years. They had worked a mean of 26 years in health care and 10 years as DNs. Before the intervention, many DNs reported that they did not work with nutritional care in an optimal way. After the intervention, significant improvements were found in perceived nutritional care and actual level of knowledge about the topic. However, not all DNs achieved the learning objectives of the course, so work remains to be done to ensure that DNs have sufficient knowledge of nutritional care to provide appropriate support and correctly prescribe oral nutritional supplements. Conclusions: The study provides new information on DNs’ perceived nutritional care and actual level of knowledge. The result of the intervention helps lay the foundation for good nutritional care for older patients in primary care.
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Blanař MV, Eglseer D, Lohrmann C, Hödl M. Changes in the availability of clinical practice guidelines for malnutrition: A 6-y multicenter study. Nutrition 2019; 71:110617. [PMID: 31837642 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2019.110617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/13/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to examine the availability of clinical practice guidelines for malnutrition in hospitals over a period of 6 y and the subsequent use of nutritional interventions in malnourished patients. METHODS This study was conducted as a secondary data analysis of data that were collected from 2012 to 2017 in a quantitative, cross-sectional, multicenter study called the National Prevalence Measurement Quality of Care (LPZ). Data from 15 hospitals and 5650 participating patients were analyzed. RESULTS The availability of clinical practice guidelines for malnutrition at the institutions increased from 6.7% in 2012 to 100% in 2017 (P < 0.001). The control of compliance to the guidelines increased from 28.6% to 85.7% (P < 0.001) and the documentation of malnutrition risk improved from 63.1% to 87.5% (P = 0.008). In 2017, the intervention "referral to dietitian" was used 8.3% more often (P < 0.001). The number of patients who did not receive any intervention decreased from 70% in 2012 to 55.6% in 2017 (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS The availability of guidelines on malnutrition increased in participating hospitals over the 6-y study period. Regular controls of adherence to the guidelines positively correlated with their availability. More interventions to treat malnutrition were carried out in 2017. The use of clinical practice guidelines in this study was associated with more interventions treating malnutrition.
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- Mgr Vít Blanař
- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Nursing Science, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Nursing Science, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Nursing Science, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Blanař V, Hödl M, Lohrmann C, Amir Y, Eglseer D. Dysphagia and factors associated with malnutrition risk: A 5‐year multicentre study. J Adv Nurs 2019; 75:3566-3576. [DOI: 10.1111/jan.14188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 08/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Vít Blanař
- Department of Nursing Faculty of Health Studies University of Pardubice Pardubice Czech Republic
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- Institute of Nursing Science Medical University of Graz Graz Austria
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- Institute of Nursing Science Medical University of Graz Graz Austria
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- Institute of Nursing Science Medical University of Graz Graz Austria
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Moick S, Simon J, Hiesmayr M. Nutrition care quality indicators in hospitals and nursing homes: A systematic literature review and critical appraisal of current evidence. Clin Nutr 2019; 39:1667-1680. [PMID: 31447247 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2019.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Quality indicators (QIs) can be used to assess and improve the quality of care in health care institutions. Although QIs about nutrition care in hospitals and nursing homes have been used in studies, no systematic catalogue exists to date. This systematic literature review identifies nutrition care QIs in hospitals and nursing homes and maps them according to QI type, stakeholder level and nutrition care theme. We also assess the level of consensus between studies and critically appraise the QIs presented therein based on two conceptual frameworks. METHODS Ovid, Scopus and grey literature were searched from 1995 to 2016 including studies in English and German. Papers were considered if they presented, developed, assessed, rated or applied nutrition care QIs in hospitals or nursing homes. We used Donabedian's framework to define structure, process and outcome indicators, the WHO (World Health Organization) definition to describe stakeholder levels, and a structured table to map indicators within themes. Further, we used the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) frameworks' key dimensions to measure the conceptual quality of the QIs. Results are summarised and presented tabulated and narratively. RESULTS From 536 identified studies, 46 were included. Eight hundred and twenty-two QIs were extracted and mapped into 19 themes and 151 sub-themes. Half were process indicators (49%) and about a quarter were outcome (28%) and structure (23%) indicators, respectively. The vast majority (71%) targeted micro level, while 28% meso level and only 1% macro level information. The nutrition themes meals/mealtimes (12%), treatment (adherence) (12%), nutrition screening (7%), assessment (7%) and monitoring (7%) were most frequently covered. 69% of indicators were cited by more than one study. Most frequent framework dimensions were patient-centeredness (33%), timeliness (30%), validity (30%) and actionability/feasibility (30%). CONCLUSION The large number of nutrition care QIs in hospitals and nursing homes indicates the high interest in and importance of better nutrition care provision in institutions. However, the great variability indicates little consensus of the nutrition community on how to best assess and measure the quality of nutrition care. The limited methodological and conceptual validity of presented QIs and the low representation of QIs at macro and meso levels make international consensus finding complicated. Increased efforts including all stakeholder levels and using conceptual frameworks to define a limited number of key QIs with high methodological validity, actionability and stakeholder relevance are needed. Registration in clinicaltrials.gov: Identifier: NCT02820246.
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- S Moick
- Division Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Medical University Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Division Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Medical University Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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Computer-Based Training in Eating and Nutrition Facilitates Person-Centered Hospital Care: A Group Concept Mapping Study. Comput Inform Nurs 2018; 36:199-207. [PMID: 29334516 DOI: 10.1097/cin.0000000000000416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Studies have shown that computer-based training in eating and nutrition for hospital nursing staff increased the likelihood that patients at risk of undernutrition would receive nutritional interventions. This article seeks to provide understanding from the perspective of nursing staff of conceptually important areas for computer-based nutritional training, and their relative importance to nutritional care, following completion of the training. Group concept mapping, an integrated qualitative and quantitative methodology, was used to conceptualize important factors relating to the training experiences through four focus groups (n = 43), statement sorting (n = 38), and importance rating (n = 32), followed by multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Sorting of 38 statements yielded four clusters. These clusters (number of statements) were as follows: personal competence and development (10), practice close care development (10), patient safety (9), and awareness about the nutrition care process (9). First and second clusters represented "the learning organization," and third and fourth represented "quality improvement." These findings provide a conceptual basis for understanding the importance of training in eating and nutrition, which contributes to a learning organization and quality improvement, and can be linked to and facilitates person-centered nutritional care and patient safety.
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Nurse's perceptions of barriers to optimal nutritional therapy for hospitalized patients. Clin Nutr ESPEN 2017; 22:92-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2017.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2017] [Revised: 07/18/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Holst M, Beermann T, Mortensen M, Skadhauge L, Lindorff-Larsen K, Rasmussen H. Multi-modal intervention improved oral intake in hospitalized patients. A one year follow-up study. Clin Nutr 2015; 34:315-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2014.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Revised: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 05/04/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Holst M, Staun M, Kondrup J, Bach-Dahl C, Rasmussen H. Good nutritional practice in hospitals during an 8-year period: The impact of accreditation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clnme.2014.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Schönherr S, Halfens RJG, Lohrmann C. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Knowledge of Malnutrition - Geriatric (KoM-G) questionnaire to measure malnutrition knowledge among nursing staff in Austrian nursing homes. Scand J Caring Sci 2014; 29:193-202. [DOI: 10.1111/scs.12133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 03/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Silvia Schönherr
- Institute of Nursing Science; Medical University of Graz; Graz Austria
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- Department of Health Services Research - Focusing on Chronic Care; School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI); Maastricht University; Maastricht the Netherlands
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- Institute of Nursing Science; Medical University of Graz; Graz Austria
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Eide HD, Halvorsen K, Almendingen K. Barriers to nutritional care for the undernourished hospitalised elderly: perspectives of nurses. J Clin Nurs 2014; 24:696-706. [PMID: 24646060 PMCID: PMC4359674 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Aims and objectives To identify what nurses experience as barriers to ensuring adequate nutritional care for the undernourished hospitalized elderly. Background Undernutrition occurs frequently among the hospitalised elderly and can result in a variety of negative consequences if not treated. Nevertheless, undernutrition is often unrecognised and undertreated. Nurses have a great responsibility for nutritional care, as this is part of the patient's basic needs. Exploring nurses' experiences of preventing and treating undernourishment among older patients in hospitals is therefore highly relevant. Design A focus group study was employed based on a hermeneutic phenomenological methodological approach. Methods Four focus group interviews with totally 16 nurses working in one large university hospital in Norway were conducted in spring 2012. The nurses were recruited from seven somatic wards, all with a high proportion of older (≥70 years) inpatients. The data were analysed in the three interpretative contexts: self-understanding, a critical common-sense understanding and a theoretical understanding. Results We identified five themes that reflect barriers the nurses experience in relation to ensuring adequate nutritional care for the undernourished elderly: loneliness in nutritional care, a need for competence in nutritional care, low flexibility in food service practices, system failure in nutritional care and nutritional care is being ignored. Conclusions The results imply that nutritional care at the university hospital has its limits within the hospital structure and organisation, but also regarding the nurses' competence. Moreover, the barriers revealed that the undernourished elderly are not identified and treated properly as stipulated in the recommendations in the national guidelines on the prevention and treatment of undernutrition. Relevance to clinical practice The barriers revealed in this study are valuable when considering improvements to nutritional care practices on hospital wards to enable undernourished older inpatients to be identified and treated properly.
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- Helene Dahl Eide
- Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Lørenskog, Norway; Department of Health, Nutrition and Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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Nutrition Therapy in the Transition between Hospital and Home: An Investigation of Barriers. J Nutr Metab 2013; 2013:463751. [PMID: 24490060 PMCID: PMC3893861 DOI: 10.1155/2013/463751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Accepted: 11/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Aims and Objectives. This study aimed to investigate barriers for nutrition therapy in the transition between hospital and home and hereby to identify areas for potential improvements. Background. Though the focus on nutritional risk is improving in hospital, there seems to be less effort to maintain or even improve nutritional status after discharge and during the rehabilitation period. Design. Qualitative focus group interviews. Methods. Semistructured focus group interviews with experienced multiprofessional staff from hospital, home care, nursing homes, and general practise. The study was done in the county of Aalborg with about 280.000 inhabitants regarding homecare and general practise as well as Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark. Results. Interviews were generated with 41 professionals from hospital, general practise, and home care. Barriers identified between settings included the following aspects: economic, organisation, and education. The impression of professionals was that few patients are discharged with nutrition therapy, compared to who could benefit from nutrition therapy after discharge. Most often, reasons were a short in-hospital stay and lack of knowledge and interest. Moreover, lack of clinical guidelines throughout all settings, time consumption, lack of transparency regarding economy and workflows, and lack of assistance from experts regarding complicated nutritional problems were identified. Conclusions. Many barriers were found in hospital as well as in the community and general practise. These were most often practical as well as organizational. Improvements of clinical guidelines and instructions and improvement of knowledge and communication at all levels are needed. Relevance to Clinical Practise. This study emphasizes that responsibility needs to be taken for patients whom are still at nutritional risk at discharge, and even before hospitalization. Nurses and doctors in and outside hospital are in need of improved knowledge, standard care plans, and instructions.
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Lindman A, Rasmussen HB, Andersen NF. Food caregivers influence on nutritional intake among admitted haematological cancer patients – A prospective study. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2013; 17:827-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2013.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2013] [Revised: 06/17/2013] [Accepted: 06/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Geurden B, Wouters C, Franck E, Weyler J, Ysebaert D. Does documentation in nursing records of nutritional screening on admission to hospital reflect the use of evidence-based practice guidelines for malnutrition? Int J Nurs Knowl 2013; 25:43-8. [PMID: 24215547 DOI: 10.1111/2047-3095.12011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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PURPOSE To describe the documentation of nutrition-related data and wards referral to dieticians in a Belgian university hospital. METHOD Retrospective analysis of 506 nursing records. FINDINGS Body weight and height are documented in 22%. "Feeding assistance" and "usual food intake pattern" are documented in 68% of all cases, and in 71% it is marked whether the patient is on a diet. Eight percent of the patients are referred to a dietician, but the indications for these referrals are not clear. CONCLUSION Given the poor documentation, most likely these patients are not adequately screened for malnutrition as recommended. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE Nurses' documentation of nutrition-related data should be improved to facilitate treatment of malnutrition with tailored multidisciplinary interventions.
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- Bart Geurden
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Green SM, James EP. Barriers and facilitators to undertaking nutritional screening of patients: a systematic review. J Hum Nutr Diet 2013; 26:211-21. [DOI: 10.1111/jhn.12011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- S. M. Green
- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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Fletcher A, Carey E. Knowledge, attitudes and practices in the provision of nutritional care. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 20:615-6, 618-20. [DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2011.20.10.615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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