Evidence on nutritional therapy practice guidelines and implementation in adult critically ill patients: A systematic scoping review | Zendy

Nomaxabiso M. Mooi | Zendy; Busisiwe P. Ncama | Zendy

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Evidence on nutritional therapy practice guidelines and implementation in adult critically ill patients: A systematic scoping review

Author(s) -

Nomaxabiso M. Mooi,

Busisiwe P. Ncama

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

curationis

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 2223-6279

pISSN - 0379-8577

DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v42i1.1973

Subject(s) - malnutrition , medicine , government (linguistics) , systematic review , critically ill , health care , best practice , medline , data extraction , medical nutrition therapy , quality (philosophy) , nursing , intensive care medicine , political science , philosophy , linguistics , pathology , law , epistemology

The rapid increase in disease-related malnutrition makes it almost impossible for healthcare practitioners and policymakers to keep up with its negative consequences. Consequently, healthcare organisations and decision-makers have called for accelerated and double-duty actions to manage the double burden of malnutrition. Guidelines standardise nutritional practices, improve nutritional status and reduce hospitalisation duration and save costs.

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