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A Comprehensive Oral Intake Evaluation Tool (the Kuchi-kara Taberu Index) Facilitated Functional Eating Rehabilitation: A Case Report in a Frail Older Patient with Malnutrition and Suspected Iatrogenic Sarcopenia

Frail older hospital patients are susceptible to malnutrition and iatrogenic sarcopenia. This can be linked to the decreased appetite and oral intake that can arise in largely bed-bound patients who do not get up even for rehabilitation and meals. The KT index was devised as an easy-to-use evaluatio...

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Autores principales: Hidaka, Yoshifumi, Watanabe, Satomi, Nishikawa, Yumiko, Irie, Iroha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35434205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221090284