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Article on Effectiveness of Preoperative Immunonutrition

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Article on Effectiveness of Preoperative Immunonutrition

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0Running head: ARTICLE 2 DISCUSSIONArticle 2 discussionName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1ARTICLE 2 DISCUSSIONAnswer 1The validity of the randomized controlled trial (RCT) by Barker et al. (2013) isunderstood by its clear research purpose and focus. The review of the article showed that themain purpose of the study was evaluating the effectiveness of preoperative immunonutritionsupplementation (intervention) on post operation outcomes (outcomes) between wellnourished (population studied) and malnourished gastrointestinal patients (comparator).Hence, from this statement, the intervention provides and population studied is clearlyunderstood. The significance of this research is that it points out to the issue of adverse postoperative outcome in patient undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery due to malnutritionand stress. Some of the adverse post operative outcome includes high treatment cost,increased mortality, impaired wound healing, high infection rate and depressed immunesystem. Depressed immunes system is one of the major challenges that contribute to othernegative issues in patient post surgery. Research has showed that immunonutrition has thepotential to minimize early inflammation in surgery and improve post operative outcomes(Zheng et al. 2007). However, there is lack of evidence regarding the function ofimmunoutrition according to nutritional status. Hence, the use of RCT to evaluate effect ofimmunutrition supplementation on post operative outcome is an important research area thatwill have many positive implications in the future. Answer 2One of the unique elements of RCT studies is that it studies the effect of anyintervention by randomization of patients to treatment and control group. Hence, apart fromthe treatment, all other things and conditions must remain same in treatment and controlgroup. Barker et al. (2013) also treated the groups equally bymaintaining a balanced group.A balanced group can be assessed by the method of enrolment, randomization, allocationconcealment, blinding and follow up procedure used in the study (Farrokhyar et al. 2010).In
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