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[Significance of nutrition in the hospitalized child]
1Hospital de Terrassa, Barcelona. bmartin@csdt.es
Abstract:
A nutritional evaluation is based on these components: dietetic and clinical anamnesis, a physical exploration and an anthropometric study. This evaluation is crucial in order to detect possible nutritional deficits which can adversely effect a child's development as soon as is possible; moreover, this evaluation bears much more weight when a child is hospitalized. A pediatrist and a pediatric nurse must evaluate a hospitalized child's ingestion of foods as well as his/her absorption and utilization of nutrients and then decide if these are the adequate ones for that child's nutritional necessities.
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