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  • Title: Nutrition and wound healing.
    Author: Osak MP.
    Journal: Plast Surg Nurs; 1993; 13(1):29-36. PubMed ID: 8488179.
    Abstract:
    As many as 50% of medical-surgical patients in major metropolitan medical centers have some degree of protein-calorie malnutrition, which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Malnutrition affects wound healing in these patients, and nurses must assess and help these patients meet their nutritional needs.
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