Home parenteral nutrition for people with inoperable malignant bowel obstruction.

CONCLUSIONS: We are very uncertain whether HPN improves survival or quality of life in people with MBO as the certainty of evidence was very low for both outcomes. As the evidence base is limited and at high risk of bias, further higher-quality prospective studies are required.
PMID: 30095168 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sowerbutts AM, Lal S, Sremanakova J, Clamp A, Todd C, Jayson GC, Teubner A, Raftery AM, Sutton EJ, Hardy L, Burden S Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research