Correction: Does artificial nutrition improve outcome of critical illness
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After publication of their article [1], the authors noticed two errors in their viewpoint. On page 4 under the subheading “Recent randomized controlled trials”, the text currently reads “However, both ICU and hospital stays were shorter in the tight-calorie group, clearly introducing the statistical problem of informative censoring/competing risk that we discussed earlier.” Th e ICU and hospital stays are in fact longer in the tight-calorie group, and this statement should therefore read “However, both ICU and hospital stays were longer in the tight-calorie group, clearly introducing the statistical problem of informative censoring/competing risk that we discussed earlier.” On page 5 also under the subheading “Recent randomized controlled trials”, the text currently reads “Th e EN amount did not diff er between groups and reached ±50% of target at day 7.” In fact, the EN amount reached ±20% of target at day 7, and this statement should therefore read “Th e EN amount did not diff er between groups and reached ±20% of target at day 7.”
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