Nutritional Care in a Nursing Home in Italy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Donini, Lorenzo Maria ^a,b   Neri, Barbara ^a   De Chiara, Stefania ^a   Poggiogalle, Eleonora ^a   Muscaritoli, Maurizio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Istituto Clinico Riabilitativo Villa delle Querce   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLINESTERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; MUCOPROTEIN;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOOD QUALITY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL CARE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84873559244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055804     Document Type: Article

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