title: Home-cooked care.
abstract: Hospital patients undoubtedly benefit when visitors bring in home-cooked meals. Patients are more likely to be well-nourished if they can eat food they enjoy. But it can present practical difficulties. Banning such food can prevent visitors from showing they care and present nurses with a dilemma.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D005521:Food Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control; D016134:Organizational Policy; D061214:Patient Safety; D006113:United Kingdom; D014789:Visitors to Patients