Malnutrition in Canadian hospitals

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology (Eckert), and Medicine (Cahill), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Department of Nutrition (Cahill), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.
² Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology (Eckert), and Medicine (Cahill), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Department of Nutrition (Cahill), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. leah.cahill@dal.ca.

Katherine F Eckert et al. CMAJ. 2018.

. 2018 Oct 9;190(40):E1207.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.180108.

¹ Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology (Eckert), and Medicine (Cahill), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Department of Nutrition (Cahill), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.
² Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology (Eckert), and Medicine (Cahill), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Department of Nutrition (Cahill), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. leah.cahill@dal.ca.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Role of dietitians in reducing malnutrition in hospital.
Holmes RA. Holmes RA. CMAJ. 2019 Feb 4;191(5):E139. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.71130. CMAJ. 2019. PMID: 30718340 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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