Protein and Reduced Length of Hospital Stay

• Impact of protein intervention timings on critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta- analysis.

  • 2025-10-01
  • Review · n = 672
  • Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) 11(4)
  • • Pranav Kumar Sharma
    • Sanjiya Arora
    • Tirth Bhavsar
    • Mamta Kamboj
    • Rahul Kamboj
    • Varnika Gupta
    • Anitha Sigamani Ramamurthi
    • Kumari Uthayakumar
    • Ajay Singh
    • Sachin Mahendrakumar Chaudhary
    • Arghadip Das
    • Arianisa Bajrami
    • Sumesh Singh
    • Devendra Tripathi

  • PubMed: 41208925
  • DOI: 10.2478/jccm-2025-0047

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Length of Hospital Stay

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  was associated with a longer hospital stay (MD = 0.47 days, 95% CI: 0.31-0.63, p < 0.00001; I² = 98%)

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes