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Authors
Tedeschi-Jockers, Franziska
Reinhold, Simona
Hollinger, Alexa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6799-1652
Tuchscherer, Daniel
Kiss, Caroline https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3988
Gantner, Lukas
Ledergerber, Katrin
Zimmermann, Sibylle
Scheuzger, Jonas
Huber, Jan
Siegemund, Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2013-4140
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fresenius Kabi, Bad Homburg, Germany contributed to the expenditures of the study by providing the HP:E formula (Fresubin® Intensive, Fresenius Kabi, Bad Homburg, Germany).
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Article History
Received: 29 July 2020
Revised: 16 May 2021
Accepted: 28 May 2021
First Online: 24 June 2021
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in Switzerland. The study protocol was approved by the local ethical committee and conducted in accordance with Directive 2001/20/EC, as well as Good Clinical Practices (I.C.H. version 4 of May 1, 1996, and Decision of November 24, 2006) and the declaration of Helsinki. Patients were included from May 20, 2016, to January 24, 2017.
: Written/oral consent for publication was obtained from all study participants.
: MS has received speaker honoraria from Fresenius Kabi, Switzerland. All contributing authors have not had any financial interest related to the study subject and report no conflicts of interest. This investigator-initiated study was funded by Fresenius-Kabi, Bad Homburg, Germany. The funder requested to start with a tolerability trial of 20 patients before further recruiting for the double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial for comparison of the high protein enteral formula with a standard product on total calorie and protein intake. The funder was not involved in the study design otherwise, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The manuscript was sent to Fresenius-Kabi before publication to determine whether it contained any confidential information or know-how. The authors take full responsibility for the content, completeness, correctness, and accuracy of the manuscript.
