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Nutritional outcome and pneumonia in critical care patients randomized to gastric versus jejunal tube feedings

DOI

389

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0

References

1992

Year

Marisa A. Montecalvo, Kathleen A. Steger, Harrison W. Farber, BERNARD F. SMITH, Richard C. Dennis, G Fitzpatrick, SIDNEY D. POLLACK, TINA Z. KORSBERG, Desmond H. Birkett, Erwin F. Hirsch,
Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

Patients fed by jejunal tube received a significantly higher proportion of their daily goal caloric intake, had a significantly greater increase in serum prealbumin concentrations, and had a lower rate of pneumonia than patients fed by continuous gastric tube feeding.