Nutritional assessment in home care patients.
Nutrition, a critical requirement of all living organisms, involves several processes that must be maintained to sustain life. Nutrition consists of ingestion of food and fluid, digestion, absorption, distribution (transportation), utilization (metabolism), and excretion of the end products. Problems arise when the amount of various nutrients ingested is either deficient or excessive or when any of these processes are significantly altered.
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Florida State University's School of Nursing, Tallahassee, USA. sfaria@mailer.fsu.edu
D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014481:United States