Research
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Early oral/enteral nutritional support reduces case fatality (death) in hospital patients.
Ensure hospitals screen all patients for malnutrition upon admission. Providing adequate nutrition, especially early, significantly reduces the risk of death.
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a meta-analysis of oral/enteral nutritional support trials, in more than 2000 patients of all types, showed that the pooled odds ratio for death by the end of scheduled follow up showed a reduced case fatality in treatment compared with control groups of 0.66 (0.48–0.91; 2p,0.01).
Why this rating
Meta-analysis of >2000 patients (Grade A evidence).
Source
Guidelines for enteral feeding in adult hospital patients
Mike Stroud et al. · Gut · 2003
DOI 10.1136/gut.52.suppl_7.vii1
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