Guidelines for artificial nutrition in the elderly;Linee Guida per la nutrizione artificiale nel paziente anziano

Giornale di Gerontologia

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 603-616

  Toigo, Gabriele ^a,e   Zamboni, M ^b   Sergi, G ^c   Valerio, G ^d   Boscaro, S ^d   Di Francesco, V ^b   Coin, A ^c   Ciocchi, B ^a   Deiuri, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Azienda Sanitaria Ulss 6 Vicenza   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly; Enteral nutrition; Hospital malnutrition; Nutritional requirements; Parenteral nutrition; Protein energy malnutrition; Refeeding syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW;

EID: 33645522462     PISSN: 00170305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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