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Clinical guidelines and nutrition therapy: better understanding and greater application to patient care.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20643299     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The volume of clinical guidelines produced by national and international societies has virtually exploded in the literature over the past decade. The most important aspect of guidelines is transparency, that is, the connection between the recommendation or guideline statement and the underlying supportive studies from the literature should be transparent. Clinical guidelines should help organize the literature, identify key areas of patient management, and provide a framework with which the clinician may operate. The reader of a guideline should embrace controversy, trace back and review the underlying literature, and then determine whether practice should be altered as a result of the guideline recommendations. The purpose of this article is to understand the derivation of clinical guidelines, to learn how to resolve controversy or differences between guidelines and clinical practice, and to learn steps to apply the guidelines to an individual institution or clinical practice.
Authors:
Stephen A McClave; Ryan T Hurt
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Review    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Critical care clinics     Volume:  26     ISSN:  1557-8232     ISO Abbreviation:  Crit Care Clin     Publication Date:  2010 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-07-20     Completed Date:  2010-12-02     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8507720     Medline TA:  Crit Care Clin     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  451-66, viii     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 550 South Jackson Street, Louisville, KY 40202, USA. Stephen.McClave@louisville.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Critical Care / methods,  standards*
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Nutritional Requirements
Nutritional Support / methods,  standards*
Practice Guidelines as Topic

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