Early postoperative enteral immunonutrition: Clinical outcome and cost- comparison analysis in surgical patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1489-1496

  Senkal, Metin ^a   Mumme, Achim ^a   Eickhoff, Ulrich ^a   Geier, Bruno ^a   Späth, Georg ^b   Wulfert, Dietmar ^c   Joosten, Uwe ^c   Frei, Andreas ^d   Kemen, Matthias ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d HealthEcon Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3 fatty acids; Arginine; Cost comparison analysis; Enteral nutrition; Immunonutrition; Infection; Nucleotides; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; JEJUNOSTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBE FEEDING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGININE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030820308     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199709000-00015     Document Type: Article

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