In critically ill children, withholding parenteral nutrition for 1 week in the ICU was clinically superior to providing early parenteral nutrition. (Funded by the Flemish Agency for Innovation through Science and Technology and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01536275.).

European Research Council Advanced Grant, Methusalem programme provided by the Flemish Government, Flemish Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Sophia Children's Hospital Foundation (SSWO), Stichting Agis Zorginnovatie, Erasmus Trustfonds, and European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) research grant.

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