title: Re: Errors in Zhao et al (2015), Impact of enteral nutrition on energy metabolism in patients with Crohn's disease.
abstract: We report invalidating errors related to the statistical approach in the analysis and data inconsistencies in a published single cohort study of patients with Crohn's disease. We provide corrected calculations from the available data and request that a corrected analysis be provided by the authors. These errors should be corrected.
authors.affiliation: Kathryn A Kaiser, Brandon J George, David B Allison, Office of Energetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, United States.
authors.forename: Kathryn A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.affiliation: Kathryn A Kaiser, Brandon J George, David B Allison, Office of Energetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, United States.
authors.forename: Brandon J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: George
authors.affiliation: Kathryn A Kaiser, Brandon J George, David B Allison, Office of Energetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, United States.
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Allison
mesh_terms: D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
keywords: Data inconsistency; Differences in nominal significance; Statistical error