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Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2020 Nov 22;22(7):1471–1476.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.10.033

Table 1.

Feeding Tube Insertion From 2011 to 2016

Year	All Subjects^*		Only 1 Year Eligible		More Than 1 Year Eligible
	n	With Feeding Tube, n (%)	n	With Feeding Tube, n (%)	n	With Feeding Tube, n (%)
2011	6234	852 (13.7)	3124	441 (14.1)	3110	411 (13.2)
2012	6188	914 (14.8)	1911	273 (14.3)	4277	641 (15.0)
2013	6599	1059 (16.0)	1919	271 (14.1)	4680	788 (16.8)
2014	6282	1009 (16.1)	1884	260 (13.8)	4398	749 (17.0)
2015	4750	592 (12.5)	1463	144 (9.8)	3287	448 (13.6)
2016	4575	576 (12.6)	2146	225 (10.5)	2429	351 (14.5)

Each resident could be eligible for 1 to 6 calendar years. There were 20582 residents contributing 34628 person-years. There were 60% residents with only 1 year of eligibility.