Research issues in nutrition support.
Nursing scientists have made important contributions to the understanding of individual responses to nutritional support as well as factors that place patients at risk for health complications. In addition, they have begun to incorporate measures of quality of life, function, and satisfaction into their outcome measures. This article focuses on describing the current state of nursing science related to nutrition support and issues related to the evaluation of research for implementation into practice.
Heitkemper
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Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Jarrett
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology