Economic value of nutritional support methods in gastrointestinal cancer: A quantitative meta-analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: EN, especially oral nutritional supplements, has a positive economic impact on patients with gastrointestinal cancer, based on reductions in the post-operative infection rate, length of hospitalization, and hospitalization expenditure.
PMID: 32229446 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition - April 3, 2020 Category: Nutrition Authors: Zhu M, Chen W, Jiang H, Zhu S, Xu J, Bao W, Dang Y, Wang MY Tags: Asia Pac J Clin Nutr Source Type: research