Nutrition
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 605-611 , July 2003

Quality of life and nutritional state in patients on home enteral tube feeding

  • Christian Loeser, MD

      Affiliations

    • 1st Medical Department, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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  • Ulrike von Herz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Reference Center on Quality of Life in Oncology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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  • Thomas Küchler, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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  • Peter Rzehak, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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  • Manfred J Müller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Reference Center on Quality of Life in Oncology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Manfred J. Müller, MD, Institut für Humanernährung und Lebensmittelkunde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Düsternbroker Weg 17, D-24105 Kiel, Germany.

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☆ This study was supported in part by a generous grant from Fresenius AG, Oberursel, Germany.

PII: S0899-9007(02)01072-9

doi: 10.1016/S0899-9007(02)01072-9

Nutrition
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 605-611 , July 2003

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