The Systematic Review Methodology Used to Support the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Dietary Energy Density and Body Weight in Adults and Children: A Systematic Review

“…The systematic review methodology used to support the 2010 guidelines is described in full elsewhere (9). In brief, for each systematic review question, committee members created a literature search protocol defining inclusion and exclusion criteria, to generate approved lists of included and excluded articles.…”

Nutritional status and food choices among first year medical students

“…In the United States, the Dietary Guidelines to Americans (DGA) are updated every 5 years by the US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Health and Human Services. The 2005 DGA [14] were updated and 2010 DGA [15] were supported and created by Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee [16]. In most European countries, the FoodBased Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) are in force [17].…”

Use and Applications of Systematic Reviews in Public Health Nutrition

“…The details of the structured process and their implementation vary among SR approaches (1,5,16,20,25,52,54,62) but always include each of the following steps: (a) an explicit statement of the objectives including the formulation of a defined, focused, and answerable question or set of questions, along with a protocol for the SR; (b) the explicit prespecification of eligibility inclusion criteria; (c) an explicit and reproducible search methodology, including transparent and comprehensive literature search strategy or strategies, screening selection, and extraction; (d ) a structured critical assessment and statement of the findings and their validity; and (e) a structured and comprehensive presentation of the included studies and their findings, which may include quantitative processes such as meta-analysis of the data across the studies. Some, but not necessarily all, SRs include a sixth step in which the results of the SR are synthesized and interpreted with a conclusion statement (6) using various graphic, evidence-mapping, and other interpretive methods.…”