Frontiers in psychiatry
Incidence and risk factors for enteral nutrition intolerance in psychiatric patients with comorbid medical conditions: a retrospective cohort study
By Zhou P, Zhang D, Zhang P and 5 others.
Abstract
Background
Critically ill psychiatric patients frequently present with multiple physical comorbidities and poor nutritional status. Enteral nutrition plays a key role in comprehensive critical care, but enteral nutrition intolerance (ENI) is highly prevalent.
Aims
To investigate the incidence, independent risk factors, and clinical outcomes of ENI in critically ill psychiatric patients with comorbid physical diseases.