Nutrition: a necessary adjunct to hospital care?
Good nutrition is undoubtedly central to optimum health and to the recovery from illness yet research and clinical surveys repeatedly demonstrate an unacceptably high incidence of malnutrition in hospital patients in whom it delays recovery, increases the incidence of complications and significantly increases the cost of treatment; the human cost is inestimable.
Holmes
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Centre for Nursing Research and Practice Development, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent.
D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D005521:Food Service, Hospital; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D006113:United Kingdom