Background: Trauma patients are at risk for malnutrition due to metabolic needs associated with injuries and surgery. Ileus may result in improper withholding of vital enteral nutrition. Contact isolation precautions (CI) are a set of restrictions intended to prevent spread of certain organisms. Our goal was to study a possible association between CI and development of ileus among trauma patients.
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