Open AccessEvidence on nutritional therapy practice guidelines and implementation in adult critically ill patients: A systematic scoping review
Author(s) -
Nomaxabiso M. Mooi,
Busisiwe Purity 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.