Recommendations

Document Overview

Design and created by Guideline Central in participation with the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Publication Date: Jul 7, 2017

Page Last Updated: May 5, 2026

Strength of Recommendation and Quality of Evidence

Category/Grade	Definition
Recommendation
S - Strong	Clear desirable or undesirable effects
W - Weak	Desirable and undesirable effects closely balanced or uncertain
GPR	Good practice recommendation
Quality of Evidence
H - High	Consistent evidence from well-performed RCTs or exceptionally strong evidence from unbiased observational studies
M - Moderate	Evidence from RCTs with important limitations or moderately strong evidence from unbiased observational studies
L - Low	Evidence for ≥1 critical outcome from observational studies, from RCTs with serious flaws or from indirect evidence
VL - Very Low	Evidence for ≥1 critical outcome from unsystematic clinical observations or very indirect evidence

Document Overview

Document Title: Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient

Authoring Societies

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Document Publication Date: Jul 7, 2017

Page Last Reviewed/Updated: May 5, 2026

Document Type: Guideline

Country of Publication: United States

Full Text Freely Available: Yes

Full Text Guideline: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1177/0148607117711387

Document Scope, Criteria, and Use Cases

Scope: Assessment and Screening, Management

Diseases/Conditions (MeSH)

D018529 - Nutritional Support

Keywords: critical illness, enteral nutrition, immunonutrition, malnutrition

Inclusion Criteria: Male, Female, Infant

Health Care Settings: Emergency Care, Hospital, Long Term Care

Intended Users: Dietician/Nutritionist, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physician, Physician Assistant

Recommendation Development Processes & Methodology

Supplemental Methodology Resource: Data Supplement

Number of Source Documents: 146

Literature Search Start Date: Sunday, January 1, 1995

Literature Search End Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Includes peer/external review process?: Yes

Includes public comment process?: No

Methodologist involvement?: Yes

Patient involvement?: No

Includes multi-disciplinary group?: Yes

Includes systematic review?: Yes

Grades quality of strength of evidence?: Yes

Grades quality of strength of recommendation?: Yes

Discloses funding source?: No

Discloses conflicts of interest?: Yes

Includes benefits/harms analysis with recommendations?: No