Nutrition, Inflammation, and Acute Pancreatitis

Table 2

Characteristics of studies of nasogastric tube feeding.

Reference	Setting	Design	Control group	APACHE II Score	Feeding; start	Feeding; formulation	Duration of nutrition	Quality of studies§
Eatock et al. 2000 [76]	UK	Cohort study	N/A	10 (4–28)^#	<48 hours of admission	Semielemental	Not stated	N/A
Eatock et al. 2005 [58]	UK	RCT	Nasojejunal	10 (7–18)^#	72 (24–72) hours after onset	Semielemental	5 days	14
Kumar et al. 2006 [59]	India	RCT	Nasojejunal	10.5±3.8^‡	48–72 hours of admission	Semielemental	7 days	13
Eckerwall et al. 2006 [41]	Sweden	RCT	Parenteral	10 (8–13)^#	<24 hours of admission	Polymeric	6 (5–9)^# days	14
Singh et al. 2012 [64]	India	RCT	Nasojejunal	8.5 (2–19)^#	10 (4–23)^# days after onset	Semielemental	7 days	13

§Range of quality score is 0 to 16; ^#values are median (range); ^‡values are mean ± standard deviation. Abbreviations: APACHE: Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; RCT: randomised controlled trial; N/A: not available.