Survey on the current practice of nutritional therapy in Portugal

Portuguese Primary Care physicians response rate in surveys: A systematic review

“…Four different delivery modes were used in the included studies: e-mail, [17][18][19][20][21][22] postal, 16,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] personal contact (i.e., researchers delivered the questionnaire directly to the potential respondent) 15,37-50 and telephone-based surveys. 51 Subgroup analysis suggests that response rates differed in studies which used different survey delivery modes (interaction test p<0.0001).…”

“…We also analyzed the impact of different affiliations on response rate but we found no evidence supporting this influence (interaction test p<0.01). Twenty-one (21) studies were affiliated to healthcare provider, 15,[17][18][19][22][23][24][25][26]28,31,34,35,[37][38][39]41,42,44,46,48 fourteen to academic institutions, 21,27,29,30,32,33,36,40,43,45,47,[49][50][51] one related to regulatory institution 16 and other to the pharmaceutical industry. 20 Heterogeneity could not be explained by this subgroup analysis (I 2 =99% for academic institution affiliation and I 2 =98% for healthcare provider affiliation).…”

Quality and safety impact on the provision of parenteral nutrition through introduction of a nutrition support team

“…Before NST introduction, a single consultant biochemist handled PN referrals, a practice similar to that used in some countries. 23 We speculate that the introduction of a multidisciplinary team optimised all steps of the patient care pathway before and during receipt of PN, thereby improving the overall care delivered. Some authors examined whether a NST should be advisory or have the authority to terminate inappropriate PN.…”

Development and validation of a questionnaire to evaluate the state of Iranian hospital nutrition support

“…For nutrition support assessment, a validated questionnaire was required which covered all aspects of it. It should be mentioned that other studies did not report their questionnaire development and validation method ( 17 , 19 , 23 – 25 , 30 – 32 ), so, we cannot discuss our method details with them. In the present study, the questionnaire was developed in a methodological approach process and validated with high validation and reliability scores which can be a guarantee for the proper tool.…”

“…Developing questions based on all 12 themes elicited from reviews, means that the questionnaire covered all items which are problems or important subjects of nutrition support around the world, although the questions could be in different sentences. Some themes such as nutrition support members were indicated in most of the questionnaires ( 17 , 19 , 23 – 25 , 30 – 32 ), which are important subjects in all nutrition support systems due to the impact on nutrition support outcomes ( 14 ). Other themes such as knowledge were indicated in some of the questionnaires due to the specific purpose of the study ( 32 ).…”