Nutritional assessment in home care patients |
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Authors: | Epley D |
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Affiliation: | Florida State University's School of Nursing, Tallahassee, USA. sfaria@mailer.fsu.edu |
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Abstract: | Nutrition, a critical requirement of all living organisms, involves several processes that must be maintained to sustain life. Nutrition consists of ingestion of food and fluid, digestion, absorption, distribution (transportation), utilization (metabolism), and excretion of the end products. Problems arise when the amount of various nutrients ingested is either deficient or excessive or when any of these processes are significantly altered. |
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