Nutrition therapy using a multidisciplinary team improves survival rates in patients with liver cirrhosis.

Objectives: Very few reports thus far have clinically elucidated the advantages of a nutrition support team (NST) in the field of liver diseases. The present study retrospectively analyzed whether nutrition therapy for liver cirrhosis (LC), performed by a multidisciplinary team that includes registe...

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Published in:Nutrition Vol. 29; no. 11/12; pp. 1418 - 1422
Main Authors: Motoh Iwasa, Kazuko Iwata, Nagisa Hara, Ayana Hattori, Masumi Ishidome, Noriko Sekoguchi-Fujikawa, Rumi Mifuji-Moroka, Ryosuke Sugimoto, Naoki Fujita, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Takei
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2013
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