Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 9 , Pages 896-901 , September 2010

Malnutrition and pressure ulcer risk in adults in Australian health care facilities

  • Merrilyn Banks, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
    • Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +07-3636-7997; fax: +07-3636-1874.
    • ,
  • Judith Bauer, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
    • The Wesley Hospital & Wesley Research Institute, Toowong, Queensland, Australia
    • ,
  • Nicholas Graves, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
    • ,
  • Susan Ash, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
    • Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Received 28 November 2008 ,Accepted 26 September 2009.

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 Funding support for this work was provided by the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Research Foundation. The nutritional status audits were in part funded by the Queensland Health Pressure Ulcer Prevention Project.

PII: S0899-9007(09)00420-1

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.09.024

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 9 , Pages 896-901 , September 2010

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