Fighting hospital malnutrition: Let's start by calibrating hospital scales!

Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-147

  Pedrolli, Carlo ^a   Cereda, Emanuele ^b   Costa, Antonio ^a  

^a Trento Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health policies; Hospital malnutrition; Nutritional assessment; Scales calibration; Weighing scales

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALIBRATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL BUILDING; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL FOOD SERVICE; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHING SCALE;

EID: 76649142703     PISSN: 1973798X     EISSN: 19737998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12349-009-0046-3     Document Type: Article

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