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Newsletter Issue 1 October 2010
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International Nutrition Survey 2011
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The International Nutrition Survey 2011 is
just over six months away!
The countdown has begun!

• Survey Objectives
• Quality Improvement
• To determine current nutrition practice in the
  adult critical care setting
• Illuminate gaps between best practice and
  current practice
• To identify nutrition practices to target for
  quality improvement initiatives
• Generate New Knowledge
• To determine factors associated with optimal
  provision of nutrition
• To determine what nutrition practices are
  associated with best clinical outcomes

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• If you are planning to participate in the
  International Nutrition Survey next year
• Add yourself to this years survey mailing list
  by submitting the form at the following link
  http//criticalcarenutrition.com/mailing_list.php
  
• If you have participated in the past, look into
  renewing your ethics approval before it expires
• If you have not participated in the past, look
  into obtaining ethics approvalstart early
  because this can take several months to complete
• Visit www.criticalcarenutrition.com for more
  information on how to get started, and to access
  all of the study resources, including guidelines
  on obtaining and renewing ethics approval

Whats new at Critical Care Nutrition and the
Clinical Evaluation Research Unit?
We have a new website! Have you checked out the
www.criticalcarenutrition.com website lately? We
have worked hard to give the website a new look
and lots of new features. Be sure to check out
some of our quality improvement tools in the
Resource Center and rate and comment on any tools
you have used so that other visitors to our site
can benefit from your insight and experience!
We have another new website! The Critical Care
Nutrition Team is part of the Clinical Evaluation
Research Unit (CERU) in Kingston, Ontario. We are
pleased to announce that CERU now has its own
website! You can check it out at www.ceru.ca.
We have a new data entry site! In order to
improve the data entry process for the
International Nutrition Survey, we have moved to
a new system called The data entry pages may
look a little different, but the data being
collected is still the same, and overall, we
think youll agree that this new site is an
improvement over the old one. If youd like to
check it out and give us some feedback, contact
Lauren at murchl_at_kgh.kari.net for more
information.
New in the 2011 Survey Identify Barriers to
Optimal Nutrition Practices!
For optimal nutrition practices to be
successfully implemented into practice an
assessment of the local barriers and enablers to
guideline adherence should be completed. In this
years International Nutrition Survey we are
pleased to invite you to also complete a barriers
assessment to help you understand the barriers
that your ICU faces in implementing the
recommendations of nutrition guidelines -
specifically barriers to providing adequate
enteral nutrition (EN). The results of this
assessment will inform local quality improvement
activities by selecting strategies designed to
overcome identified barriers. The barriers
assessment will involve distributing a
questionnaire to your ICU staff. Sites that
complete this Barriers Questionnaire will also
receive a report scoring the perceived importance
of specific barriers in the context of their ICU.
However, participation in this initiative is
optional you do not have to distribute the
Barriers Questionnaire in order to participate in
the International Nutrition Survey. For further
information please contact Lauren at
murchl_at_kgh.kari.net.
Contact Us Daren Heyland Principal
Investigator dkh2_at_queensu.ca 613-549-6666 ext.
4847 Naomi Cahill Project Leader
cahilln_at_kgh.kari.net 613-549-6666 ext.
2812 Lauren Murch Project Assistant murchl_at_kgh.
kari.net 613-549-6666 ext. 4146