@article{ETD,
      school = {D.N.P.},
      author = {Huff-Slankard, Janie},
      url = {http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/472},
      title = {A nutrition assessment of children with neuromuscular  impairments undergoing spinal fusion  and instrumentation  and frequencies of postoperative infections},
      publisher = {Oregon Health and Science University},
      abstract = {The quarterly infection control report, issued from the  Quality Improvement Department  in the institution where  the clinical inquiry will be carried out, identified an  increase in the  infection rate after spine fusion surgery  in the neuromuscular scoliosis population. The   nutritionist and one of the spine surgeons noted  anecdotally that most of those same patients  were  nutritionally depleted at the time of surgery, using weight  as the assessing parameter. The  identified patients’  weights were at or below the fifth percentile. The question  was raised that  perhaps these patients needed a  preoperative nutritional assessment and intervention to  better  prepare them for spine fusion and instrumentation  surgery to prevent postoperative wound  infections.},
      number = {ETD},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6083/m4rr1x0s},
      recid = {472},
      address = {2009},
}