Capellá 1990.

Methods	Randomised clinical trial, Spain
Participants	27 hospitalised adults with gastric adenocardinoma undergoing total gastrectomy, at nutritional risk due to major abdominal surgery Male:Female = 21:6 Mean age = 64 years
Interventions	Experimental group: Received TPN (n = 15) Control group: Received traditional serum therapy (3 participants actually received peripheral parenteral nutrition)(n = 12)
Outcomes	Mortality, complications, length of hospital stay
Study dates	1983 to 1986
Notes	We contacted the authors on 13th December 2015 by email: gcapella@ico.scs.es. We received no reply.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not described
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not described
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not described
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not described
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	The number of participants with incomplete data was not reported.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Mortality and complications were reported.
For‐profit bias	Unclear risk	It was unclear how the trial was funded.
Other bias	Low risk	The trial appeared to be free of other components that could put it at risk of bias.