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Nutrition Support Teams: A Systematic Review.

Patriek Mistiaen¹, Koen Van den Heede¹

¹KCE Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Brussels, Belgium.

JPEN. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

|March 18, 2020

Summary

Nutrition support teams (NSTs) may improve the use of enteral nutrition over parenteral nutrition (PN). However, evidence is limited due to a lack of well-designed studies evaluating NST effectiveness.

Keywords:

adult enteral nutrition nutrition support teams parenteral nutrition

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Published on: September 20, 2019

Area of Science:

Clinical Nutrition
Healthcare Management
Evidence-Based Practice

Background:

Nutrition support teams (NSTs) were established to optimize nutrition therapy.
Expected benefits include reducing inappropriate parenteral or enteral nutrition prescriptions.
Recent assessments of NST effectiveness are lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically review the effectiveness of NSTs.
To evaluate the impact of NSTs on the prevalence of adult patients receiving parenteral or enteral nutrition.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of studies published between 2000 and 2018.
Searched five literature databases and included citing searches.
Included comparative studies on NSTs with outcome data on nutrition support prevalence.

Main Results:

27 studies were included, primarily from the UK and US, mostly with pre-post or non-randomized designs.
Conflicting evidence exists on NSTs' effect on initiating parenteral nutrition (PN).
Weak evidence suggests NSTs may increase enteral nutrition use relative to PN and decrease inappropriate PN.

Conclusions:

While studies often favor NSTs, the overall evidence base is weak.
A lack of well-designed studies and consistent successful outcomes limits conclusions.
Further high-quality research is needed to confirm the benefits of NSTs.