Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 127-132 , February 2008

Differences in nutritional care in pressure ulcer patients whether or not using nutritional guidelines

  • Judith M.M. Meijers, M.Sc., R.N.

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Health Care and Nursing Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31-43-388-1707; fax: +31-43-388-4162.
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  • Jos M.G.A. Schols, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Practice, Maastricht University and Department Tranzo, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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  • Pam A. Jackson, M.Phil., R.G.N.

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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  • Gero Langer, Ph.D., R.N.

      Affiliations

    • German Centre for Evidence-based Nursing, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
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  • Michael Clark, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Wound Healing Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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  • Ruud J.G. Halfens, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Health Care and Nursing Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Received 1 August 2007 ,Accepted 18 October 2007.

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 Numico Netherlands provided an unrestricted educational grant to the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel that enabled it to undertake this study.

PII: S0899-9007(07)00316-4

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.10.010

Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 127-132 , February 2008

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