Assessment is food for thought
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Assessment is food for thought

How many of your patients are starving? It may sound a dramatic question hut as Joanne Harvey points out in her article on malnutrition (page 20), at least 30,000 patients are currently given temporary nutritional support after hospital admission and an increasing number of sufferers from malnutrition are treated at home after discharge from hospital.

Primary Health Care. 3, 5, 1-1. doi: 10.7748/phc.3.5.1.s1

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