Nutrition screening process for patients in an acute public hospital servicing an elderly, culturally diverse population

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-76

  Frew, Elizabeth ^a   Sequeira, Jennifer ^a   Cant, Robyn ^b  

^a DANDENONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication barrier; Frail; Malnutrition; Malnutrition Screening Tool; Multicultural; Underweight; Workload efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954127544     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: 17470080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2010.01422.x     Document Type: Article

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