Burns
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 14-24 , February 2007

Practical guidelines for nutritional management of burn injury and recovery

  • Kathy Prelack

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Nutrition, Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston Burn Hospital, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 722 3000; fax: +1 617 367 8936.
    • ,
  • Maggie Dylewski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Nutrition, Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston Burn Hospital, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • ,
  • Robert L. Sheridan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston Burn Hospital, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA

,Accepted 25 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.06.014

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