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. 1996 Jul 27;313(7051):230. doi: 10.1136/bmj.313.7051.230

Immediate enteral feeding after gastro-intestinal resection. Study was not sufficiently rigorous.

N J Everitt
PMCID: PMC2351640  PMID: 8696217

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