Purpose:To assist the pharmacy clinician engaged in nutrition support in staying current with the most pertinent literature. Methods: Several experienced board-certifi ed clinical pharmacists in nutrition support compiled a list of publications published in 2013 that they considered to be important to their practice. The citation list was compiled into a Web-based survey whereby pharmacist members of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.), GI-Liver-Nutrition Practice Research Network of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and the Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine were asked to rank each article according to level of importance in their practice. Results: A total of 30 articles were identifi ed by the author group. Thirty-six participants responded to the survey. The top-ranked papers by participants from the Web-based survey were reviewed by the authors. Due to its high level of importance, the parenteral nutrition safety consensus recommendations article, to be published in 2014 by A.S.P.E.N., was also reviewed. Conclusion: It is recommended that the informed pharmacist, who is engaged in nutrition support therapy, be familiar with the majority of these publications.
Key Words-consensus, enteral nutrition, guidelines, nutrition support, outcomes, parenteral nutritionHosp Pharm-2014;49:717-730 whereby the clinical pharmacist provides pharmacotherapy services along with nutrition support responsibilities. This paradigm shift has arguably been partially attributed to the fi nancially motivated decline in the provision of interdisciplinary nutrition support teams by US hospitals over the past couple of decades. 1 S taying current with the literature is a requirement for the informed pharmacist who maintains an evidence-based clinical practice. This requirement has become increasingly more challenging to fulfi ll as a paradigm shift has changed the practice culture of a full-time pharmacy nutrition support specialist to a more integrated model