Characteristics of undernourished older medical patients and the identification of predictors for undernutrition status

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Feldblum, Ilana ^a   German, Larisa ^a   Castel, Hana ^b   Harman Boehm, Ilana ^b   Bilenko, Natalya ^a   Eisinger, Miruna ^b   Fraser, Drora ^a   Shahar, Danit R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEGETABLE; VOMITING; CALORIC INTAKE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; MASTICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; APPETITE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASTICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38349023264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2891-6-37     Document Type: Article

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