Obesity: a rapidly expanding challenge

Nursing Management

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 27-35

  Blackwood, Hilary S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; GASTROPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORBID OBESITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH BYPASS;

BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3142587317     PISSN: 07446314     EISSN: 15388670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006247-200405000-00009     Document Type: Article

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