Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 432-440 , April 2010

Defining malnutrition: Mission or mission impossible?

  • Judith M.M. Meijers, R.N., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Health Care and Nursing Science, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31-43-388-1707; fax: +31-43-388-4162.
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  • Marian A.E. van Bokhorst-de van der Schueren, R.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • VU University Medical Centre, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Jos M.G.A. Schols, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Peter B. Soeters, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Ruud J.G. Halfens, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Health Care and Nursing Science, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Received 13 January 2009 ,Accepted 19 June 2009.

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 Nutricia Netherlands provided an unrestricted grant to perform this study.

PII: S0899-9007(09)00258-5

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.06.012

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 432-440 , April 2010

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