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The case for nutritional support. Eliminating hospital-acquired malnutrition improves outcomes and reduces costs.
Taking steps to eliminate hospital-acquired malnutrition in patients with disease or trauma significantly improves treatment outcomes. Patients' ability to recover from trauma or illness and respond to therapy depends on how well they synthesize proteins necessary to regain homeostasis. It is possible for patients to die from complications of progressive hospital-acquired malnutrition. Hospital...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1490