Impact of a computer-assisted decision support system (CDSS) on nutrition management in critically ill hematology patients: the NUTCHOCO study (nutritional care in hematology oncologic patients and critical outcome)

Annals of Intensive Care

Table 2 Number of days reaching caloric and protein targets during ICU stay

	‘Before group’		‘After group’		Intensity rate ratio	p
	Number of days in ICU days within target	Intensity rate	Number of days in days within target	Intensity rate	Intensity rate ratio	p
All patients	n = 147		n = 128
Calories	2.08 (4.29)	18.4% [14.4–23.5%]	4.13 (6.13)	28.8% [24.6–33.7%]	1.57 [1.17–2.10]	0.0025
Proteins	0.83 (3.09)	7.3% [4.3–12.5%]	4.09 (5.55)	28.3% [24.4–32.8%]	3.86 [2.21–6.73]	< 0.0001
Subgroup analysis
Neutropenic	n = 43		n = 57
Calories	2.28 (4.04)	23.4% [15.2–36.0%]	5.33 (6.53)	33.7% [27.4–41.5%]	1.44 [0.89–2.33]	0.13
Proteins	0.86 (3.14)	8.8% [3.1–24.8%]	4.61 (5.29)	29.2% [24.4–35.0%]	3.31 [1.16–9.43]	0.025
Severe patients	n = 41		n = 40
Calories	2.00 (3.26)	20.9% [13.6–32.0%]	3.75 (4.01)	26.1% [20.2–33.8%]	1.25 [0.76–2.07]	0.38
Proteins	0.49 (1.50)	5.1% [2.0–12.6%]	3.41 (4.75)	23.3% [18.3–29.8%]	4.59 [1.79–11.76]	0.0015
Allogeneic HSCT	n = 32		n = 38
Calories	2.56 (3.72)	23.6% [15.5–35.8%]	4.42 (4.62)	29.8% [23.8–37.4%]	1.27 [0.79–2.04]	0.33
Proteins	1.47 (4.65)	13.5% [5.2–34.9%]	4.34 (5.00)	29.3% [22.4–38.4%]	2.17 [0.81–5.82]	0.12