Doctors' knowledge and perceptions of perioperative nutrition support; results from a large Australian tertiary referral Centre

Howard H Y Tang¹, Danielle Taylor¹, Irene Deftereos^{2

3}, Aurora Ottaway³, Justin M C Yeung^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, Footscray Hospital, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Surgery, Western Precinct, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Howard H Y Tang et al. ANZ J Surg. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun;93(6):1465-1466.

doi: 10.1111/ans.18377. Epub 2023 Mar 7.

Howard H Y Tang¹, Danielle Taylor¹, Irene Deftereos^{2

3}, Aurora Ottaway³, Justin M C Yeung^{2

4}

¹ Department of General Surgery, Footscray Hospital, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Surgery, Western Precinct, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

No abstract available

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