Significant Published Articles for Pharmacy Nutrition Support Practice in 2016

Abstract

To assist the pharmacist engaged in nutrition support therapy in staying current with pertinent literature. Several clinical pharmacists engaged in nutrition support therapy compiled a list of articles published in 2016 considered important to their clinical practice. The citation list was compiled into a single spreadsheet where the author participants were asked to assess whether the paper was considered important to nutrition support pharmacy practice. A culled list of publications was then identified whereby the majority of author participants (at least 5 out of 8) considered the paper to be important. Guideline and consensus papers from professional organizations, important to practice but not scored, were also included. A total of 103 articles were identified; 10 from the primary literature were voted by the group to be of high importance. An additional 11 organizational guidelines, position, recommendation, or consensus papers were also identified. The top-ranked articles from the primary literature were reviewed. It is recommended that pharmacists, engaged in nutrition support therapy, be familiar with the majority of these articles as it pertains to their practice.

Redesigning Journal Clubs to Staying Current with the Literature

“…To evaluate the success of our journal club in identifying articles pertinent to our practice, we examined a series of publications which was intended to identify the most significant articles for pharmacy nutrition support and critical care pharmacy practice published from 2013 to 2017 [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ] and compared them to our current list of periodicals screened by our journal club. The intent of these publication series was to assist the pharmacist engaged in nutrition support or critical care pharmacotherapy in staying current with the pertinent literature.…”

“…The authors had different practices with some having a diverse patient population, whereas others had a focused patient population (e.g., critical care, pediatrics, oncology, and long-term/home nutrition therapy). After an initial identification of over 100 articles published per year that may be important to pharmacy nutrition support practice, the group of authors significantly reduced the number of papers deemed to be of high importance as evidenced by the majority vote (defined as at five out of eight authors agreed that the paper was of high significance) [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. On behalf of the Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Literature Update Group, comprised of over forty critical care pharmacists across the United States, the authors reviewed hundreds of articles annually with summaries disseminated nationally via a monthly newsletter and social media outlets.…”

“…It has been suggested that the gap between implementation of new knowledge into clinical practice is a primary reason for the suboptimal provision of quality health care for some institutions [ 10 ]. However, due to expanding responsibilities among today’s clinical pharmacy faculty and practitioners, combined with an exponential growth rate in the number of medical and health science publications [ 11 ], it becomes a daunting, if not overwhelming, task for one individual to consistently screen the abundant amount of journals to seek out those clinical studies, position papers, or clinical guidelines that may be incorporated into their evidence-based clinical practice [ 12 ]. Because of these expanding responsibilities, we have altered our journal club format from a detailed discussion of one or two articles to a methodology that allows bi-monthly screening of numerous journals pertinent to our clinical practice.…”

Significant Published Articles for Pharmacy Nutrition Support Practice in 2019

“…For the past several years, as clinicians who practice in pharmacy nutrition support, it has been our intent to provide a yearly source of new literature important to pharmacists engaged in nutrition support. [2][3][4][5][6] This article identifies and discusses significant articles that were published in 2019.…”

Significant Published Articles for Pharmacy Nutrition Support Practice in 2018

“…For the past several years, as clinicians who practice in pharmacy nutrition support, it has been our intent to provide a yearly source of new literature important to pharmacy nutrition support practice. [2][3][4][5] This article identifies and discusses significant articles that were published in 2018.…”