. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 8.

Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2017 Jun 28;71(9):1121–1128. doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2017.88

Table 2. Jejunostomy access and feeding complications.

Minor Jejunostomy complications	In-hospital (n=45)	Out of hospital (n=41)
Clavien-Dindo grade 3 or 4²⁰,²¹	2/45 (4%)	0/26 (0%) ^a
Feed related small bowel necrosis requiring laparotomy (non-fatal)
Clavien-Dindo grade 1 or 2²⁰,²¹
Diarrhoea (%)	4/45 (9%)	7/26 (27%) ^a
Reflux of feed / vomiting (%)	0/45 (0%)	2/26 (8%) ^a
Tube displacement or migration (%)	1/45 (2%)	1/41 (2%)
Inadvertent tube removal (%)	2/45 (4%)	8/41 (20%)
Leakage around insertion site (%)	6/45 (13%)	8/41 (20%)
Tube occlusion (%)	7/45 (16%)	4/41 (10%)

Functional jejunostomy at end of study interval	41/45 (91%)	32/45 (71%)

This includes the 18 participants allocated to the intervention arm who received home jejunostomy feeding as planned and the 6 participants allocated to the usual care arm who required rescue feeding. The remaining patients had the jejunostomy tube left in situ but not utilised. Unless there was a need for ongoing enteral feeding, jejunostomy tubes were removed six weeks after discharge from hospital.