Protein-energy undernutrition and life-threatening complications among the hospitalized elderly
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 17 (12) , 923-932
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2002.10930.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether elderly patients with protein-energy undernutrition at admission are at increased risk for subsequKeywords
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