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Nutrition: a necessary adjunct to hospital care?

S. Holmes

Centre for Nursing Research and Practice Development, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU

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.

Key Words: Malnutrition • weight loss • hospitalisation • food choice

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 119, No. 3, 175-179 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/146642409911900308
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