Nutritional counselling in general practice: a cost effective analysis
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Nutritional counselling in general practice: a cost effective analysis.
STUDY OBJECTIVE To study the clinical and cost outcomes of providing nutritional counselling to patients with one or more of the following conditions: overweight, hypertension and type 2 diabetes. DESIGN The study was designed as a random controlled trial. Consecutive patients were screened opportunistically for one or more of the above conditions and randomly allocated to one of two interven...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.5.311