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Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study: design and methods.
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BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is common in older people in hospital and is associated with adverse clinical outcomes including increased mortality, morbidity and length of stay. This has raised concerns about the nutrition and diet of hospital in-patients. A number of factors may contribute to low dietary intakes in hospital, including acute illness and cognitive impairment among in-patients. The extent to which other factors influence intake such as a lack of help at mealtimes, for patients who r...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC geriatrics Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 5
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2318
- ISSN:
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1471-2318
- Source identifiers:
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375741
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:375741
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Roberts et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Roberts et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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