Table 6.

The precision (%) in the nutritional care in relation to patients with energy problems (eat little, stop eating due to tiredness rather than to having satisfied their hunger, and eat slowly)

	Hospitals
	Large sized	Middle sized	Small sized	P-value
Energy problems	n = 599	n = 276	n = 103
PE-food	12.6	12.1	5.9	0.159
Oral Supplement	38.9	43.4	37.6	0.407
Artificial nutritional (AN) support	21.6	23.2	11.0	0.031 b, c
Pre- and/or postoperative AN	6.2	10.1	1.9	0.011 b, c
Eating Assistance	15.7	16.5	28.0	0.019 b, c

Missing values in < 15%. Chi-square test

^a first group differs compared to second

^b first group differs compared to third

^c second group differs compared to third group