Table 7.
Specialized nutrition treatment/nutrition support by site (n = 700)
| Specialized nutrition treatment | Overall (N = 700) % (n) |
Site A (N = 152) % (n) |
Site B (N = 119) % (n) |
Site C (N = 159) % (n) |
Site D (N = 131) % (n) |
Site E (N = 139) % (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % who received any diet prescription beyond the regular diet | 68.4 (479)** | 59.9 (91) | 52.9 (63) | 70.4 (112) | 77.1 (101) | 80.6 (112) |
| Nutrition support and type provided | (n = 93) | (n = 7) | (n = 8) | (n = 49) | (n = 9) | (n = 20) |
| Enteral | 81.7 (76)a | 57.1 (4) | 100 (8) | 77.6 (38) | 66.7 (6) | 100 (20) |
| Parenteral | 19.4 (18)** | 71.4 (5) | 0 (0) | 22.4 (11) | 22.2 (2) | 0 (0) |
| Supplemental | 19.4 (18)** | 42.9 (3) | 75 (6) | 2 (1) | 11.1 (1) | 35 (7) |
Patients could have received multiple types of nutrition support
**indicates statistically significant difference across sites (p < 0.0001)
aIndicates use of Fishers’ exact test rather than chi-square