Enteral Nutrition Versus a Combination of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: Uncertainty persists about the best methods and timing for providing medical nutrition therapy (MNT) in the acute phase of critical illness. We conducted an overview of systematic reviews to examine and appraise the findings of the current systematic reviews and performed an updated meta-analysis incorporating newly published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to investigate whether enteral nutrition (EN) is superior to the combination of EN and parenteral nutrition (PN) in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods: We systematically searched three databases to retrieve systematic reviews and RCTs. Two independent reviewers performed the screening, data extraction, and quality assessment processes. The random effects model was utilize

SUBMITTER: Papanikolaou P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11818211 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature