The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation's Elderly Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population (2000) / Chapter Skim
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To answer this question, the committee reviewed the published medical literature with a focus on original research and systematic reviews. To identify relevant literature, systematic searches of online databases were conducted and key references were elicited from committee members, other experts (invited speakers and consultants)
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The committee also evaluated the full spectrum of nutrition-based therapies. For example, for common outpatient conditions such as hypertension, the therapies included behavioral interventions that involved counseling, feeding studies that controlled food intake, and trials of dietary supplements.
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This report includes meta-analyses of clinical trials as well as other systematic reviews as long as these reviews performed a comprehensive search of the medical literature. Systematic reviews are considered more complete and less subject to bias than expert opinion and previous types of reviews.
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USPSTF (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force)
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