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The role of nutrition in wound healing
1Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Medsurg Nursing : Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
Many factors, such as smoking, diabetes, anemia, steroids, and 'malnutrition, often impede the wound healing process. Optimizing patient's overall health status, in particular promoting nutrition, is an extremely effective way to improve the status of a wound. In this article, the role nutritional status plays in wound repair will be discussed.