Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
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Critically ill children in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) have unique nutrition needs that are challenging to achieve and thus are at high risk of malnutrition. There is increasing evidence that children who reach caloric goals early have improved outcomes. The purpose of this initiative was to implement an enteral nutrition (EN) algorithm in a tertiary care PICU utilizing clinical decision support tools (CDSTs) and a standardized order set within an electronic health record. ⋯ We used CDSTs and standardized order sets to implement a nutrition algorithm to facilitate and likely improve the nutrition care of critically ill children.