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Fish oil decreases hospital length of stay

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01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“The results showed a reduction in the length of hospital stay of 2.03 days (95% CI 1.23–2.84; p < 0.00001) with FO-PN.”
Quoted verbatim from Parenteral Nutrition Containing Fish Oil for Hospitalized Non-Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patients: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
This finding among the 33 findings on its endpoint

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Hospital length of stay

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Who
Adults hospitalized outside the ICU receiving parenteral nutrition providing at least 70% of energy; fish oil-containing PN versus PN without fish oil, pooled across 18 randomized trials
Dose studied
not reported

Moderate evidencePMID 40219041 · 2025

02 · The study

Study
meta-analysis
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderatethis finding
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  • insufficient

03 · The paper

Nutrients
What else it reported1 finding · 0 compounds · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6WQXZN57H3NW2Y4GMDEEQQW