Wisdom of crowds or wisdom of the few? How to improve estimations of energy needs in clinical practice

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 695-696

  Weijs, Peter J M ^a,b,c   Vansant, Greet A A M ^d  

^a AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEUVEN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTRE LFORCE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; LETTER; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 77957365012     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2010.07.009     Document Type: Letter

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