Dietetic service provision for burn care in the United Kingdom: are nutrition support standards being met?

Abstract

Compared to national guidelines for nutrition support, deficiencies of dietetic service provision exist within UK burns settings. This is further reinforced when practice is compared with existing multi-professional burns management standards.

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

“…Studies originated from 13 countries: four are from the USA (Barr et al 2004;Compton et al 2014;Dervan et al 2012;Heyland et al 2004); three from Canada (Cahill et al 2014;Heyland et al 2015;Mackenzie et al 2005); South Africa (Africa 2016; National Department of Health 2017) and Brazil (Pasinato et al 2013) published two studies each; and the remaining eight studies are from researchers located in Europe (Bousie et al 2016), Pakistan (Sungur, Sahin & Tasci 2015), United Kingdom (Dobson & Scott 2007), Taiwan (Wang et al 2017), Norway (Wøien & Bjørk 2006), Ireland (Rice Niamh 2013), England (Quenot et al 2010), Switzerland (Kiss et al 2012) and Asia (Kim et al 2012). Fourteen primary studies followed the prospective (Barr et al 2004;Cahill et al 2010b;Dobson & Scott 2007;Heyland et al 2004;Pasinato et al 2013;Quenot et al 2010;Windle 2009;Wøien & Bjørk 2006) and retrospective research designs (Bousie et al 2016;Compton et al 2014;Kim et al 2017;Kiss et al 2012;Mackenzie et al 2005;Wang et al 2017), eight and six, respectively, two were multicentre quality improvement initiatives (Heyland et al 2015;Quenot et al 2010) and one was a quasi-experimental study (Sungur et al 2015). With regard to studies from grey literature, two of them (National Department of Health 2016; National Department of Health 2017) were guideline documents based on literature review and expert opinion from South Africa, and one was a (Bousie et al 2016;…”