Nurses estimating body weight and height to screen for malnutrition in bedridden patients: Good practice?

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Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Geurden, Bart ^a,b   Franck, Erik ^a,b   Weyler, Joost ^a   Ysebaert, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Karel de Grote University College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bedridden; Nursing; Nursing research; Nutrition; Practice nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEDRIDDEN PATIENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN; JOB EXPERIENCE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING PRACTICE; PATIENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 83555174354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17514991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclnm.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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