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* 1. What is your staff group/profession?

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* 2. In which setting do you work? Please select all that apply

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* 3. What are the main nutritional problems that you come across in end of life care? Please select all that apply

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* 4. Do you give any guidance to patients/relatives/carers about how eating and drinking needs may change at end of life? Please select all that apply

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* 5. Are you ever asked about or do you give advice about malnutrition (undernutrition)?

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* 6. What advice do you give? Please select all that apply

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* 7. What does "food first" treatment of malnutrition mean to you? Please select all that apply

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* 8. If you request prescribed oral nutritional supplements, what guidance do you follow to determine whether a prescription is appropriate? Please select all that apply

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* 9. Thinking about prescribed oral nutritional supplements, please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements

  Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree Don't know
They are the best thing to use for people with malnutrition
They are better than food for treating malnutrition
They are the 'gold standard' for treating malnutrition
A lot of patients/clients don't really like them
Patients/clients may not take them as prescribed (e.g. taking less than the therapeutic dose of 2 per day, every day)
Patients/clients expect/request them
Patients/clients who have been in hospital have already had them prescribed
There is nothing in them which cannot be found in food
They cost a lot more in the community than they do in hospital
In hospital they are the most cost effective way to treat malnutrition
They are an essential part of end of life care

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* 10. If you were malnourished and you could be treated either with ordinary food which was adapted to meet your nutritional needs or with prescribed nutritional supplements, which would you choose?

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