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ReviewMayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes2019

The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Principles and Practice in Nutrition.

Bradley C Johnston, John L Seivenpiper, Robin W M Vernooij, Russell J de Souza, David J A Jenkins, Dena Zeraatkar, Dennis M Bier, Gordon H Guyatt

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Review in Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Nutritional Risk Screening Recommendations for Critically Ill Patients: A Meta-Research Study and Quality Appraisal of Clinical Guidelines.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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  2. Application of the Knowledge-to-Action framework in translating nutrition and dietetic knowledge into practice: A systematic review.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Bradley C JohnstonDepartment of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
John L SeivenpiperDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Robin W M VernooijDepartment of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Russell J de SouzaDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
David J A JenkinsDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Dena ZeraatkarDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Dennis M BierChildren's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Gordon H GuyattDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The practice of evidence-based nutrition involves using the best available nutrition evidence, together with clinical experience, to conscientiously work with patients' values and preferences to help them prevent (sometimes), resolve (sometimes), or cope with (often) problems related to their physical, mental, and social health. This article outlines the 3 fundamental principles of evidence-based practice as applied to the field of clinical nutrition. First, optimal clinical decision making requires awareness of the best available evidence, which ideally will come from unbiased systematic summaries of that evidence. Second, evidence-based nutrition provides guidance on how to decide which evidence is more or less trustworthy-that is, how certain can we be of our patients' prognosis, diagnosis, or of our therapeutic options? Third, evidence alone is never sufficient to make a clinical decision. Decision makers must always trade off the benefits with the risks, burden, and costs associated with alternative management strategies, and, in so doing, consider their patients' unique predicament, including their values and preferences.

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EBN, evidence-based nutritionGRADE, Grading of Recommendation Assessment, Development, and EvaluationRCT, randomized clinical trial

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PMID31193887
PMCPMC6543447

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