Questions were generated by the search team, together with contributions
from members of the Virtual Stroke Group and the RCP Intercollegiate
Stroke Working Party Guideline Development Group. Six questions
covering several areas of nutritional support after stroke were defined and
searches were conducted through to 31 October 2011 using five electronic
databases (Embase, Medline, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Web of
Science). All included studies were assessed for quality and risk of bias using
the van Tulder criteria for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and the
Quorum criteria for systematic reviews