The Commission on Dietetic Registration and its Dietetics Practice Audit Committee recently eported the results of the 2010 Ditetics Practice Audit, which was unertaken primarily to refine and valdate the examinations for the egistered dietitian (RD) and dietetic echnician, registered (DTR) credenials (1). The Committee had secondary bjectives in two areas: investigating ssociations between edu...

Awareness of the nutritional requirements of inpatients has been sadly neglected for many years. Students in British medical schools are taught little about clinical nutrition and the role of the dietitian. Dietitians, on the other hand, spend four years learning the science of nutrition and dietetics. In most hospitals in Britain dietitians are responsible for giving advice on a wide range of ...

To the Editor: I read with interest the American Heart Association (AHA) Science Advisory1 on high-protein diets in the October 9, 2001, issue of Circulation. Let me preface this response by saying that I am neither a medical doctor nor a registered dietitian. I am, however, a healthy, 29-year-old woman of normal weight who follows the Zone diet.2,3 I did not begin the diet as a means for weigh...

Emma Johnston is Tissue Viability Dietitian, Ulster Community and Hospitals Trust, Northern Ireland Despite the inherent difficulties of measuring nutritional status, the evidence strongly suggests that malnutrition does in fact predispose to pressure ulcer development. Fortunately, malnutrition is a reversible risk factor and a recent Cochrane review concluded that older patients in the acute ...