title: [Effectiveness of enteral nutritional therapy in the healing process of pressure ulcers: a systematic review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effectiveness of enteral nutritional therapy (ENT) in the healing process of pressure ulcers (PU) in adults and the elderly.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic review whose studies were identified through the databases of Cochrane, MEDLINE/PubMed, SciELO, LILACS, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and manual searches. It included randomized clinical trials (RCTs) without delimiting the period or language of publication, which addressed adults and elderly patients with pressure ulcers in a comparative treatment of enteral nutritional therapy and placebo or between enteral nutritional therapy with different compositions and dosages.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We included ten studies that considered different interventions. It resulted in more pressure ulcers healed in the groups that received the intervention. The included studies were heterogeneous with regard to patients, the type of intervention, the sample and the follow-up period, all of which made meta-analysis impossible.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the enteral nutritional therapy demonstrates a promotion of pressure ulcer healing, sufficient evidence to confirm the hypothesis was not found.
authors: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Gisely
authors: G
authors: Blanc
authors: Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Marineli Joaquim
authors: MJ
authors: Meier
authors: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Janislei Giseli Dorociaki
authors: JG
authors: Stocco
authors: Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Hellen
authors: H
authors: Roehrs
authors: Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Karla
authors: K
authors: Crozeta
authors: Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors: Dulce Aparecida
authors: DA
authors: Barbosa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006801:Humans; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*; D012074:Remission Induction; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing