Hospital length of stay and nutritional status

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-402

  Kyle, Ursula G ^a   Genton, Laurence ^a   Pichard, Claude ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Length of hospital stay; Malnutrition; Nutritional assessment; Nutritional screening; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; ELDERLY CARE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALNUTRITION; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE MASS; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL RISK INDEX; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 20844458079     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mco.0000172579.94513.db     Document Type: Review

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