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Table 5 Effect of patient and ICU level variables on adequacy of calories from enteral nutrition

From: The validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to enteral feeding in critically ill patients: a multicenter international survey

  

Single predictor models

 

df

Estimate (SE)

P-value

Patient level variables

   

Age (per decade)

1

-0.16 (0.46)

0.73

Female (versus male)

1

4.19 (1.58)

0.008

Surgical admission type (vs Medical)

1

-18.16 (1.79)

<0.0001

Admission diagnosis

6

 

<0.0001

  Trauma*

 

Referent

 

  Cardiovascular/Vascular*

 

0.48 (3.17)

 

  Gastrointestinal*

 

-24.75 (3.01)

 

  Neurologic*

 

9.22 (3.03)

 

  Respiratory*

 

11.93 (2.88)

 

  Sepsis

 

3.20 (3.27)

 

  Other

 

0.51 (3.18)

 

Apache II score

1

-0.12 (0.11)

0.27

BMI

1

-0.09 (0.10)

0.39

Site level variables

   

  Region

6

 

<0.0001

  USA

 

Referent

 

  Asia

 

31.49 (5.78)

 

  Australia and New Zealand

 

10.34 (4.54)

 

  Canada

 

18.85 (5.86)

 

  Europe

 

8.09 (5.67)

 

Teaching (versus non-teaching)

1

-3.40 (4.76)

0.47

Hospital Size (per 1000 beds)

1

-0.20 (6.60)

0.98

ICU beds (per 10 beds)

1

0.20 (0.18)

0.28

Open ICU (versus closed/other)

1

1.28 (5.17)

0.80

% Respondents working in ICU >5 years

1

-0.19 (0.08)

0.02

% Respondents in leadership role

1

0.01 (0.11)

0.91

  1. *Includes operative and non-operative patients.
  2. N = 1070 (due to missing data on 4 patients).