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The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation’s Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population
and to spend time in a nursing home during the 12 months after discharge (OR = 3.22, CI = 1.05–9.87) (Convinsky et al., 1999).
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