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Pressure ulcer care: nutritional therapy need not add to costs
J M G A Schols1, C N Kleijer, C Lourens
1De Riethorst Nursing Home, Geertruidenberg, Netherlands. jmga.schols@worldonline.nl
Journal of Wound Care
|March 27, 2003
Abstract:
Fewer patients with pressure ulcers in Dutch nursing homes receive nutritional therapy via sip feeds, possibly because of cost concerns. But this therapy would not cost more if it reduced the duration of nursing care by even one day, this paper argues.