Nutrition

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Wilson, 2005, Appetite assessment: simple appetite questionnaire predicts weight loss in community settings., Am J Clin Nutr, 82, 1074, 10.1093/ajcn/82.5.1074

Makhiya, 2008, The Subjective Global Assessment: a review of its use in clinical practice., Nutr in Clin Pract, 23, 404

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Sullivan, 2004, Prognostic significance of monthly weight fluctuations among older nursing home residents., J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 59, M633, 10.1093/gerona/59.6.M633

Murden, 1994, Recent weight loss is related to short-term mortality in nursing homes., J Gen Intern Med, 9, 648, 10.1007/BF02600311

Covinsky, 2002, Serum albumin concentration and clinical assessments of nutritional status in hospitalized older people: different sides of different coins?, J Am Geriatr Soc, 50, 631, 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50156.x

Ferguson, 1993, Serum albumin and prealbumin as predictors of hospitalized elderly nursing home residents., J Am Geriatr Soc, 41, 545, 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb01893.x

Friedman, 1985, Hypoalbuminemia in the elderly is due to disease not malnutrition., Clin Exp Gerontol, 7, 191

Myron Johnson, 2007, Ichihara K; Scientific Division Committee on Plasma Proteins (C-PP), International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). Clinical indications for plasma protein assays: transthyretin (prealbumin) in inflammation and malnutrition., Clin Chem and Lab, 45, 419

Shenkin, 2006, Serum prealbumin: is it a marker of nutritional status or of risk of malnutrition?, Clin Chem, 52, 2281, 10.1373/clinchem.2006.077412

Lim, 2005, Prealbumin is not sensitive indicator of nutrition and prognosis in critical ill patients., Yonsei Med J, 46, 21, 10.3349/ymj.2005.46.1.21

Robinson, 2004, Improving nutritional screening of hospitalized patients: the role of prealbumin., J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 28, 281, 10.1177/0148607104028004281

Fuhrman, 2004, Hepatic proteins and nutrition assessment., J Am Diet Assoc, 104, 1258, 10.1016/j.jada.2004.05.213

Bachrach-Lindstrom, 2000, Assessment of nutritional status using biochemical and anthropometric variables in a nutritional intervention study of women with hip fracture., J Clin Nutr, 20, 217, 10.1054/clnu.2000.0383

Steinman, 2000, Serum albumin: its significance in patients with ESRD., Semin Dial, 13, 404, 10.1046/j.1525-139x.2000.00110.x

Dutton, 1999, Pre-dialysis serum albumin is a poor indicator of nutritional status in stable chronic hemodialysis patients., EDTNA-ERCA J, 25, 36, 10.1111/j.1755-6686.1999.tb00011.x

Kagawa-Singer, 2001, Negotiating cross-cultural issues at the end of life., JAMA, 286, 2993, 10.1001/jama.286.23.2993

Thomas, 1997, The role of nutrition in prevention and healing of pressure ulcers., Clin Geriatr Med, 13, 497, 10.1016/S0749-0690(18)30156-3

Hartgrink, 1998, Pressure sores and tube feeding in patients with a fracture of the hip: a randomized clinical trial., Clin Nutr, 17, 287, 10.1016/S0261-5614(98)80321-X

Kirk, 1993, Arginine stimulates wound healing and immune function in elderly human beings., Surgery, 114, 155

Barbul, 1990, Arginine enhances wound healing and lymphocyte immune response in humans., Surgery, 108, 331

Desneves, 2005, Treatment with supplementary arginine, vitamin C and zinc in patients with pressure ulcers: a randomised controlled trial., Clin Nutr, 24, 979, 10.1016/j.clnu.2005.06.011

Langer, 2003, Nutritional interventions for preventing and treating pressure ulcers., Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 4, CD003216

McCauly, 1991, Effects of glutamine infusion on colonic anastomotic strength in the rat., JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 15, 437, 10.1177/0148607191015004437

Thomas, 2008, Understanding clinical dehydration and its treatment., J Am Med Dir Assoc, 9, 292, 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.03.006

Stotts, 2003, The link between tissue oxygen and hydration in nursing home residents with pressure ulcers: preliminary data., J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs, 30, 184

ter Riet, 1995, Randomized clinical trial of ascorbic acid in the treatment of pressure ulcers., J Clin Epidemiol, 48, 1453, 10.1016/0895-4356(95)00053-4

Waldorf, 1995, Wound healing., Adv Dermatol, 10, 77

Clark, 2002, The biochemistry of antioxidants revisited., Nutr Clin Pract, 17, 5, 10.1177/011542650201700105

Goode, 1989, The prevention and management of pressure ulcers., Med Clin North Am, 73, 1511, 10.1016/S0025-7125(16)30613-7

Collins, 2003, Diabetes, nutrition, and wound healing., Adv Skin Wound Care, 16, 291, 10.1097/00129334-200311000-00010

Gilmore, 1995, Clinical indicators associated with unintentional weight loss and pressure ulcers in elderly residents of nursing facilities., J Am Diet Assoc, 95, 984, 10.1016/S0002-8223(95)00271-5

Wilson, 2002, Effect of liquid dietary supplements on energy intake in the elderly., Am J Clin Nutr, 75, 944, 10.1093/ajcn/75.5.944

Henderson, 1992, Prolonged tube feeding in long-term care: nutritional status and clinical outcomes., J Am Coll Nutr, 11, 309, 10.1080/07315724.1992.10718232

Mitchell, 1997, The risk factors and impact on survival of feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment., Arch Intern Med, 157, 327, 10.1001/archinte.1997.00440240091014

Sackett, 1996, Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't., BMJ, 312, 71, 10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71