Nasogastric Nutrition versus Nasojejunal Nutrition in Patients with Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Table 1

Characteristics and quality of the included RCTs.

Study	Year	Country	Design	Sample size	Double blind	Withdrawals/dropouts (NG/NJ)	Randomization	Jadad score
Eatock et al. [19]	2005	UK	RCT	NG (27); NJ (22)	No	0/1	Yes	3
Kumar et al. [18]	2006	India	RCT	NG (16); NJ (14)	No	0/1	Yes	3
Singh et al. [20]	2012	India	RCT	NG (39); NJ (39)	No	0/0	Yes	3
Zonghan et al. [25]	2015	China	RCT	NG (40); NJ (40)	No	0/0	Yes	3

The modified Jadad score was used to evaluate the quality of the included trials.
NG, nasogastric nutrition; NJ, nasojejunal nutrition.