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Table 7 Specialized nutrition treatment/nutrition support by site (n = 700)

From: Need for the Integrated Nutrition Pathway for Acute Care (INPAC): gaps in current nutrition care in five Canadian hospitals

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)

  1. Patients could have received multiple types of nutrition support
  2. **indicates statistically significant difference across sites (p < 0.0001)
  3. aIndicates use of Fishers’ exact test rather than chi-square