Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 95-105 , April 2006

Enteral feeding in the critically ill: Are nursing practices contributing to hypocaloric feeding?

  • Andrea P. Marshall

      Affiliations

    • Critical Care Nursing Professorial Unit, The University of Technology, Sydney, Level 6 Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9926 6051; fax: +61 2 9439 8418.
    • ,
  • Sandra H. West

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 2 9351 0564; fax: +61 2 9351 0654.

,Accepted 5 September 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.09.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 95-105 , April 2006

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