Table 3.

Postoperative enteral nutrition and clinical outcome

	Group 1	Group 2	P
Patient number	25	174
Diagnosis (colon /rectal cancer)	8/17	66/108	0.568
Gender (male/female)	9/16	91/83	0.129
Tumor stage			0.777
NRS 2002 score	1.88 ± 0.88	1.96 ± 1.01	0.689
Postoperative fasting time (d)	5.16 ± 1.21	6.40 ± 1.84	0.001
Postoperative TPN	27	167	0.996
Complications	1.04 ± 0.20	1.29 ± 0.66	0.060
None (= 1)
Infection (= 2)
Fistula (= 3)
Others (= 4)
Postoperative hospital stay (d)	11.92 ± 4.34	15.77 ± 6.03	0.002
Cost of hospitalization (RMB)	44210.88 ± 7635.85	42060.09 ± 13066.15	0.752
Postoperative outcome	1.00 ± 0.00	1.06 ± 0.27	0.214
Recovery (= 1)
Unrecovery (= 2)
Dead (= 3)

Group 1: Patients who received enteral nutrition postoperatively; Group 2: Patients who did not receive enteral nutrition postoperatively. TPN: Total parenteral nutrition; NRS: Nutrition risk screening.