The effect of testosterone and a nutritional supplement on hospital admissions in under-nourished, older people

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Piantadosi, Cynthia ^a   Visvanathan, Renuka ^a   Naganathan, Vasi ^b   Hunter, Peter ^c   Cameron, Ian D ^b   Lange, Kylie ^a   Karnon, Jonathan ^a   Chapman, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CAULFIELD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TESTOSTERONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80855150904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-66     Document Type: Article

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