Table 1.

Feeding tube placement before and after quality improvement interventions

Variable	March-September 2002	March-September 2003	Change in proportion (95% CI)*
No of hospital admissions	19 399	20 468
No (%) of patients given feeding tubes	71 (0.37)	27 (1.3)	0.002 (0.001 to 0.003)
No of charts located for review	58	27
No (%) of patients with dementia given feeding tubes	40 (69)	8 (30)	0.393 (0.145 to 0.581)
No (%) of patients with dementia and advance directive refusing artificial feeding given feeding tubes	8 (14)	4 (15)	−0.01 (−0.17 to 0.15)

^*Software used: Confidence Interval Analysis, version 2.