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01-02-2015 | Editorial

Energy deficit is clinically relevant for critically ill patients: no

Authors: L. John Hoffer, Bruce R. Bistrian

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 2/2015

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Clinical trials should be based on solid science. Unfortunately, many recent randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of nutritional support in critical illness have fallen short of this standard by focusing solely on the benefits of high calorie provision, while ignoring a much more important nutritional requirement in this setting [1, 2]. In particular, the amount of protein provided in all but two recent clinical trials—both of which indicated better outcomes in the protein-supplemented patients [3, 4]—was drastically less than what the best available evidence indicates it ought to be [5‐9]. …

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Title: Energy deficit is clinically relevant for critically ill patients: no
Authors: L. John Hoffer
Bruce R. Bistrian
Publication date: 01-02-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3518-y

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