title: Optimal nutritional support.
abstract: There is ongoing debate about the respective roles of enteral and parenteral nutrition. The present short review suggests that these two feeding modalities are not mutually exclusive and that optimal nutritional support may necessitate the concomitant administration of enteral together with parenteral nutrition.
authors.affiliation: Combined Gastroenterology Unit, Scarborough Hospital, North Yorkshire YO12 6QL, UK.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Woodcock
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacFie
mesh_terms: D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy*; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006801:Humans; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition