Chapter 5, Problem 16RQ

Summary Introduction

To examine: Whether the statement “Time-tested clinical assumptions about appropriate dietary therapies during pregnancy tend to work as well in practice as do evidence-based therapies” is true or false.

Introduction: Evidence-based dietary therapies are practices that optimize the decision-making process during pregnancy by laying emphasis on the use of evidence from a properly designed and conducted research. However, time-tested clinical assumptions are general assumptions drawn over a long period of time from clinical settings.