Clinical nutrition protocols for continuous quality improvements in the outcomes of patients with burns.
Multiple guidelines for nutrition services in the postburn period exist. Given that nutrition intervention after burn injury affects outcome, it is appropriate to routinely consider methods for improving current practices. Effective nutrition therapies for the thermally injured individual are outlined in this article. Support for benchmarking these protocols is presented, and the completion of outcomes research in nutrition services for patients with burn injuries is encouraged.
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Nutrition Services, Shriners Burns Institute, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3095, USA.
Gottschlich
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D002053:Burn Units / Q000592:standards*; D002056:Burns / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D018529:Nutritional Support; D009820:Ohio; D016134:Organizational Policy; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*