Figure 1.

Guidelines for management. * if severely malnourished, e.g. BMI less than 14 kg/m or negligible intake for 2 weeks or more, start feeding at maximum of 5 kcal/kg/day. Adapted from NICE [14] and British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition guidelines [15].

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