Compliance of acute and long stay geriatric patients with nutritional supplementation

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  McCormick, Siobhán E ^a   Power, Dermot ^b   Hameed, Zeyad ^b   Saqib, Ghulam ^b   Glynn, Mary ^b   McCann, Dermot ^b  

^a St Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ACUTE DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547589451     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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