DIET@NET: Best Practice Guidelines for dietary assessment in health research

BMC Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Cade, Janet E ^a   Warthon Medina, Marisol ^a   Albar, Salwa ^b   Alwan, Nisreen A ^c,l   Ness, Andrew ^d,l   Roe, Mark ^e,l   Wark, Petra A ^f,g,l   Greathead, Katharine ^a   Burley, Victoria J ^a,l   Finglas, Paul ^e,l   Johnson, Laura ^h,l   Page, Polly ^i,l   Roberts, Katharine ^j,k,l   Steer, Toni ^i,l   Hooson, Jozef ^a   Greenwood, Darren C ^a,l   Robinson, Sian ^l,m   Allman Farinelli, Margaret ^l   Ambrosini, Gina ^l   Andersen, Lene Frost ^l   Anderson, Annie ^l   Bandera, Elisa ^l   Baranowski, Thomas ^l   Bryant, Maria ^l   Burrows, Tracy ^l   Church, Ms Susan ^l   Collins, Clare ^l   Craig, Leone ^l   de Looy, Anne ^l   Drewnowski, Adam ^l   Edwards, Kim ^l   Emmett, Pauline ^l   Foster, Emma ^l   Gibson, Rosalind ^l   Gurinovic, Mirjana ^l   Holdsworth, Michelle ^l   Holmes, Bridget ^l   Kesse Guyot, Emmanuelle ^l   Kirkpatrick, Sharron ^l   Kolahdooz, Fariba ^l   Lachat, Carl ^l   Lanigan, Julie ^l   Lawrence, Mark ^l   Lennox, Alison ^l   Levy, Renata ^l   Louzada, Maria Laura ^l   Mendez, Michelle ^l   Micha, Renata ^l   Naska, Androniki ^l   Nelson, Michael ^l   Nestel, Penny ^l   Nicolaou, Mary ^l   Ocke, Marga ^l   Okubo, Hitomi ^l   Pot, Gerda ^l   Robertson, Claire ^l   Robson, Paula ^l   Seal, Chris ^l   Sharma, Sangita ^l   Strachan, Emma ^l   Subar, Amy ^l   Summerbell, Carolyn ^l   Swan, Gillian ^l   Tabacchi, Garden ^l   Thompson, Frances ^l   Thompson, Janice L ^l   Thornton, Lukar ^l   Touvier, Mathilde ^l   Turrini, Aida ^l   Warren, Janet ^l   Welch, Ailsa ^l   Wheeler, Simon ^l   Willett, Walter ^l   Harvey, Linda ^l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Elsie Widdowson Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^k PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Dietary assessment methods; Guidelines; Nutrition; Nutritional epidemiology; Public health

Indexed keywords

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; DELPHI STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EUROPE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCIENTIST; VALIDATION STUDY; CONSENSUS; DIET; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DIET; HUMANS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85033771432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0962-x     Document Type: Article

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