Maintaining adequate nutrition on dialysis.
Patients with kidney failure are at particular risk from malnutrition and they must be regularly monitored and assessed if it is to be avoided. This article examines a multidisciplinary approach in a dialysis unit and discusses methods of nutritional assessment and treatment that are available.
Russell
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Rowley
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Davies
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Russell
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D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory / Q000451:nursing*