Artificial nutrition and bioethics issues: medical therapy or basic assistance?
Background: Artificial nutrition provides nutrients artificially to those patients who cannot take food by mouth because of their pathological condition. Artificial nutrition is the therapeutical approach in case of protein-energy malnutrition, which is secondary to many conditions which do not allo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2013-04-01
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| Series: | Italian Journal of Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/235 |