Excess body weight in children may increase the length of hospital stay

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of excess body weight in the pediatric ward of University Hospital and to test both the association between initial nutritional diagnosis and the length of stay and the in-hospital variation in nutritional status. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study based on...

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Main Authors: Maria Teresa Bechere Fernandes, Gabriel Vecchi Danti, Denise Maximo Lellis Garcia, Alexandre A. Ferraro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier España 2015-02-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322015000200087&lng=en&tlng=en