Malnutrition: A hidden problem in hospitalized children

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 356-361

  Gibbons, Troy ^a   Fuchs, George J ^a  

^a ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 64949116607     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922808324493     Document Type: Review

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