Review Article
Risk Assessment of Intermittent and Continuous Nasogastric Enteral Feeding Methods in Adult Inpatients: A Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Main characteristics of the included studies.
| | Study (year) | Country | Sample | Mean age (years) | Diarrhea in IEF | Diarrhea in CEF | Pneumonia in IEF | Pneumonia in CEF | Follow-up (days) | Quality (Newcastle–Ottawa Scale) |
| | Jerry o. Ciocon (1992) | USA | 60 | 72 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 8 | | Marc J. M (only pneumonia) (1996) | USA | 60 | 66.5 | | | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | | Emmy C. (2002) | USA | 18 | 36.6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | Jenny Shun Wah Lee (only diarrhea) (2003) | Hong Kong, China | 74 | 82.05 | 6 | 5 | | | 5 | 8 | | Letícia Faria Serpa (2003) | Brazil | 28 | 67.25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | | Jana B. A. (2007) | USA | 139 | 46.52 | 5 | 3 | 38 | 33 | 7 | 7 | | Barbara Tamowicz (only pneumonia) (2007) | Poznań, Poland | 40 | 18–75 | | | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | | J. S. W. Lee (only diarrhea) (2010) | Hong Kong, China | 178 | Over 60 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 12 | 28 | 8 | | Indubala Maurya (only diarrhea) (2011) | India | 40 | 40.45 | 2 | 0 | | | 1 | 8 |
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IEF: intermittent nasogastric enteral feeding; CEF: continuous nasogastric enteral feeding.
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