The presence and effect of bias in trials of early enteral nutrition in critical care

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 240-245

  Koretz, Ronald L ^a   Lipman, Timothy O ^b,c  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Enteral nutrition; Randomized trials; Risk of bias; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COST; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY DELAY;

CRITICAL CARE; ENTERAL NUTRITION; RANDOMIZED TRIALS; RISK OF BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84895484035     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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