Protein is an important component of nutritional support predicting complications in malnourished hospitalised patients - Details of our previous randomised controlled trial (RCT)

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e124-e128

  Drommer, Juliane ^a,c   Schneider, Heinz ^b   Alteheld, Birgit ^c   Stehle, Peter ^c   Meier, Rémy ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

^b HealthEcon Ltd   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Disease related malnutrition; Hospital; Individual nutritional therapy; Multivariate analyses; Readmission rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957799446     PISSN: 24054577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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