Nutritional status and clinical outcome in elderly female surgical orthopaedic patients

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 101-107

  Lumbers, M ^a   Driver, L T ^a   Howland, R J ^a   Older, M W J ^b   Williams, C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WALKING AID; WELLBEING;

EID: 0029901607     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5614(96)80033-1     Document Type: Article

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