Mealtimes matter.
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چکیده
THE NHS spends about £500 million a year on food and drinks for inpatients, yet there are still inpatients who receive inadequate nutrition and hydration.
منابع مشابه
Family mealtimes and eating psychopathology: the role of anxiety and depression among adolescent girls and boys.
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Poor nutritional care within the hospital setting continues despite decades of work chronicling and measuring the problems. To address the problem changes in practice have been attempted to improve the patients' experience of mealtimes. In order to implement patient-centred mealtimes for older patients by changing the focus from institutional convenience to one that focuses on the requirements ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Nursing management
دوره 21 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014