Enteral nutritional supplementation with key nutrients in patients with critical illness and cancer: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 467-477

  Heys, Steven D ^a,b   Walker, Leslie G ^a   Smith, Ian ^a   Eremin, Oleg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033504316     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199904000-00004     Document Type: Review

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