Nutritional screening for improving professional practice for patient outcomes in hospital and primary care settings
Abstract
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:
Main objective:
To examine the effectiveness of nutritional screening in improving quality of care (professional practice) and patient outcomes compared with usual care.
Secondary questions:
The review may also contribute to answering some of the following questions:
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Are the recipients of nutritional screening willing partners (i.e. is it an acceptable intervention)?
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Are nutritional screening programmes likely to be cost‐effective?
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Are there any alternative interventions for nutritional screening that are more (cost) effective or acceptable?
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What are the characteristics of a (cost) effective nutritional screening programme?