From the *Clinical Unit of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, H:S Bispebjerg University Hospital, and †Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, H:S Bispebjerg University Hospital, ‡Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, Gentofte University Hospital, §Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, Glostrup University Hospital,¶Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, Herlev University Hospital, ∥Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, Hillerød Hospital, **Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, Vejle Hospital, and ††Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgical Gastroenterology, Aalborg Hospital, Roskilde Hospital in Køge Denmark.
Reprints: Birgitte Brandstrup, MD, PhD, Clinical Unit of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, H:S Bispebjerg University Hospital, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark. E-mail: [email protected].
This study was funded by: Eastern Danish Health Science Research Forum, University of Copenhagen; Clinical Unit of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, H:S Bispebjerg University Hospital; The Copenhagen Hospital Corporation, Council of Research; The Danish Hospital Foundation for Medical Research, Region of Copenhagen, The Faeroe Islands and Greenland; The Danish Medical Association Research Found; The Northern Jutland Council of Research; The Research and Development Council, Vejle County; Olga Bryde Nielsens Fund; Hans and Nora Buchards Fund; Inge and Jørgen Larsen's Mindelegat; Grosserer Valdemar Foersom and wife Thyra Foersoms Fund. Nutricia A/S and N.C. Nielsen Hospital equipment A/S kindly donated enteral nutrition and feeding tubes.