Table 4 |
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Distribution (%) of eating difficulties divided according to the size of each hospital. |
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Hospitals |
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Large sized |
Middle sized |
Small sized |
P-value |
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n = 1197 |
n = 824 |
n = 370 |
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Eating difficulties |
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Ingestion |
12.2 |
9.0 |
8.0 |
< 0.029 b |
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Deglutition |
20.5 |
14.0 |
15.3 |
0.001b |
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Energy |
50.3 |
43.5 |
34.2 |
< 0.0005 a, b, c |
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Missing values in < 5%. 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 |
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Westergren et al. Nutrition Journal 2009 8:20 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-8-20 |
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