Lutz's Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 8th Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781719645867 ISBN-10: 1719645868 Copyright: 2023 Edition: 8th Editor: Mazur, Erin E., Litch, Nancy A., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 57 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Amy Hess Fischl,  MS RDN LDN BC-ADM CDCES  (University of Chicago Medical Center) Description This is the eighth edition of a book that covers the basics of nutrition in the context of healthy and acutely and chronically ill individuals. The sixth edition was published in 2014 and the seventh edition in 2019. Purpose The purpose is to provide beginning students with the fundamentals of nutrition in relation to health. There are many similar books on the market used in universities and colleges today. This book highlights, as its unique feature, its sequential introduction of material, making certain that new concepts are not introduced until the underlying basic science and vocabulary is covered. This feature may make it more attractive to non-nutrition and dietetics students. Audience The authors state the book is intended for nursing students, dietetic assistants, diet technicians, and "others." This is an appropriate audience since it does cover very basic topics, giving just enough information. One author is a nurse and the other is a registered dietitian nutritionist; both are qualified to discuss the topics at hand. Features The book does a good job covering the basics. The authors state that this book could be used to teach an entire course or as a reference for practitioners. Each chapter includes learning objectives, then a deeper dive into the topics, multiple tables, figures, and textboxes highlighting key subjects, "genomic gems" -- highlights regarding genetics and nutrition, clinical applications in the context of health care, keystones or a summary of the key information, case studies with care plans, teamwork -- which builds from the case studies and care plans highlighting chart notes from a team member, typically a dietitian, social worker, or care coordinator, critical thinking questions, and clinical analysis multiple-choice questions. The dietitian notes in the teamwork section are a little outdated, since SOAP notes are not part of the Nutrition Care Process. Instead, most dietitian notes follow PES (problem, etiology, signs/symptoms) and are used in conjunction with ADIME (assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, evaluation). While this is not meant as the be-all, end-all book, there are some outdated references in several of the chapters. The chapter on diet in diabetes and hypoglycemia did update the reference data to 2021, making it more in line with the current Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. There were some instances that the terminology was outdated (used diabetes educator (the old term) instead of diabetes care and education specialist) and used SMBG instead of BGM, but this would only be evident to a team member who works exclusively in diabetes care and education. There are no references or answers to the end-of-chapter questions in the book. Instead, they are available on the F.A. Davis site, which requires a code or purchasing the book online. Since I did not have access to a code, I was unable to review the references, which I do feel are quite important to understanding where the information was obtained. It would be nice to have access to the bibliography without an access code. Assessment While there are many basic nutrition textbook options for nursing students, this one may be attractive to some professors since it includes a test bank of over 450 questions. The update offers the readers solid, basic information regarding nutrition in the context of health. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 4 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 4 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 2 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 2 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 4 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 3 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 3 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 3 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 2 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 3 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 3 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 4 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 8 ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.