Malnutrition in Tuscan (Italy) Nursing Homes: structural, process and outcome quality indicators
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A cross-sectional survey to investigate the quality of care in Tuscan (Italy) nursing homes: the structural, process and outcome indicators of nutritional care
BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated process and structure indicators of nutritional care as well as their use in nursing homes (NHs), but the relative weight of these indicators in predicting the risk of malnutrition remains unclear. Aims of the present study are to describe the quality indicators of nutritional care in older residents in a sample of NHs in Tuscany, Italy, and to eval...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckt123.098