title: Why won't this wound heal?
abstract: Protein-Calorie malnutrition occurs in a significant number of hospitalized, home and institutionalized patients. It results in increases in mortality and morbidity which are associated with increased length of stay and therefore cost of hospitalization. Such malnutrition can be reversed and corrected by appropriate nutritional intervention, thereby reducing the incidence of severity of these complication. However, it is first necessary to identify those patients with clinical and subclinical malnutrition. Protein-Calorie malnutrition or patients at risk of developing malnutrition can be identified by performing a nutritional assessment as described in this paper. Performing a nutritional assessment on your patient may provide you with the answer to your question "Why won't this wound heal?"
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pinchcofsky-Devin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014945:Wound Healing