TY - JOUR T1 - <span hwp:id="article-title-1" class="article-title">Initial refeeding with a soft diet was better than a clear liquid diet for length of hospital stay in mild acute pancreatitis</span><span hwp:id="article-title-2" class="sub-article-title">Commentary</span> JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 22 LP - 22 DO - 10.1136/ebn.12.1.22 VL - 12 IS - 1 AU - Christina Hurlock-Chorostecki Y1 - 2009/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/12/1/22.abstract N2 - E SathiarajMs E Sathiaraj, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India; esther.sathiaraj@gmail.comIn patients with mild acute pancreatitis, is resumption of oral feeding with a soft diet better than a clear liquid diet for reducing length of hospital stay?Design:randomised controlled trial.Allocation:{concealed}.*Blinding:blinded {patients and data analysts}.*Follow-up period:until hospital discharge.Setting:Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, India.Patients:101 patients (mean age 38 y, 82% men) who had mild acute pancreatitis (absence of pancreatic necrosis, abscess and pseudocyst, organ dysfunction, hypotension [systolic blood pressure &lt;90 mm Hg], and hypoxaemia [oxygen saturation &lt;90%]), were admitted to hospital with abdominal pain, and had amylase or lipase &gt;3 times the upper limit of normal … ER -