Your patient is admitted to the cardiac floor with mild arrhythmias. The most appropriate method of estimating energy requirements in this patient is:
a. indirect calorimetry.
b. use of doubly labeled water.
c. predictive equations.
d. using the USDA's MyPyramid website.
c
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