Zhongguo yi xue ke xue yuan xue bao. Acta Academiae Medicinae Sinicae
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Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao · Dec 2002
Meta Analysis[An appraisal of immunonutrition for clinical nutritional support with a systematic review of English and Chinese documents].
To evaluate the efficacy, safty and economical values of immunonutrition for clinical nutritional support. ⋯ Immunonutrition is associated with decreasing of infectious rates, length of hospitalization and cost in selective operation patients. But current evidence can't affirm the role of immunonutrition on critical illness patients. Further studies are urgently needed to clarify the reliability of immunonutrition in this group.