Rana 1992.
Methods | Randomised clinical trial, country unknown. | |
Participants | 54 hospitalised adults admitted for 1 of the following elective gastrointestinal surgical procedures: Gastro‐oesophagectomy, total and subtotal gastrectomy for carcinoma, open cholecystectomy, and exploration of common bile duct, palliative cholecystojejunostomy and enterostomy or choledochojejunostomy and enterostomy for carcinoma of the pancreas, ileocolonic resection, hemicolectomy or anterior resection of colon and abdominoperineal resection of colon; at nutritional risk due to major surgery Male:Female = 19:21 (only participants that completed the study) Mean age: 60.7 years (only participants that completed the study) Exclusion criteria: dementia, received any form of pre‐operative nutritional support. |
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Interventions | Experimental group: Oral nutrition sip feed of 200 ml. (1.5 kcal/ml, 7.8 g/L)(n = 27) Control group: No intervention(n = 27) Co‐intervention: Standard hospital diet |
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Outcomes | Nutritional status, nutritional intake, monitoring and complications | |
Study dates | Not stated | |
Notes | We could obtain no contact information for the authors. | |
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 | High risk | More than 5% dropped out, and the trial did not use proper methodology to deal with missing data. |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | No protocol could be obtained but the trial reported serious adverse events and mortality. |
For‐profit bias | High risk | The trial was funded by Nutricia. |
Other bias | Low risk | The trial appeared to be free of other components that could put it at risk of bias. |