Effect of Nutritional Support on Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer in a Palliative Care Unit

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 730-733

  Amano, Koji ^a   Morita, Tatsuya ^b   Baba, Mika ^a   Kawasaki, Muneyoshi ^a   Nakajima, Shinichiro ^a   Uemura, Minako ^a   Kobayashi, Yuka ^a   Hori, Moeko ^a   Wakayama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Saito Yukoukai Hospital   (Japan)

^b SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

nutritional support; palliative care unit; terminally ill patients with cancer

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84885814445     PISSN: 10499091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049909112469273     Document Type: Article

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