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Parenteral nutrition is a therapy that supplies patients with all their nutritional requirements intravenously, thus eliminating the need for oral alimentation. The therapy was first introduced in the United States to hospitalized patients in the late 1960's. The benefit of long-term parenteral...

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Main Author: Smith, Margaret Anne
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26536