Newsletter Issue 1
October 2010
www.criticalcarenutrition.com
The countdown
has begun!
The International Nutrition
Survey 2011 is just over six
months away!
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
If you are planning to participate in the International Nutrition Survey next year:
• Add yourself to this year’s 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 approval…start 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
What’s new at Critical Care Nutrition and the Clinical Evaluation Research Unit?
We have a new website!
We have another new website!
We have a new data entry site!
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.
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.
In order to improve the data entry
process for the International Nutrition
Survey, we have moved to a new
system called
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!
The data entry pages may look a little
different, but the data being collected
is still the same, and overall, we think
you’ll agree that this new site is an
improvement over the old one. If
you’d like to check it out and give us
some feedback, contact Lauren at
[email protected]
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 year’s 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
[email protected].
Contact Us
Daren Heyland – Principal Investigator
[email protected]
613-549-6666 ext. 4847
Naomi Cahill – Project Leader
[email protected]
613-549-6666 ext. 2812
Lauren Murch – Project Assistant
[email protected]
613-549-6666 ext. 4146