Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Jul 1999
Enteral tube feeding in the intensive care unit: factors impeding adequate delivery.
To evaluate those factors that impact on the delivery of enteral tube feeding. ⋯ The current manner in which enteral tube feeding is delivered in the ICU results in grossly inadequate nutritional support. Barely one half of patient caloric requirements are met because of underordering by physicians and reduced delivery through frequent and often inappropriate cessation of feedings.