Home enteral nutrition reduces complications, length of stay, and health care costs: results from a multicenter study.

Autor:	Klek S; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG)., Hermanowicz A; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG)., Dziwiszek G; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG)., Matysiak K; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG)., Szczepanek K; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG)., Szybinski P; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG)., Galas A; From Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital, General and Oncology Surgery Unit, Skawina, Poland (SK, KS, and PS); the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland (AH); the Home Enteral Nutrition Unit, Stomed, Ostroleka, Poland (GD); Gastroenterology and Oncology and Plastic Surgery, Medical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland (KM); and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Krakow, Poland (AG).
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	The American journal of clinical nutrition [Am J Clin Nutr] 2014 Aug; Vol. 100 (2), pp. 609-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Jun 25.
DOI:	10.3945/ajcn.113.082842
Abstrakt:	Background: Home enteral nutrition (HEN) has always been recognized as a life-saving procedure, but with the ongoing economic crisis influencing health care, its cost-effectiveness has been questioned recently. Objective: The unique reimbursement situation in Poland enabled the otherwise ethically unacceptable, hence unavailable, comparison of the period of no-feeding and long-term feeding and the subsequent analyses of the clinical value of the latter and its cost-effectiveness. Design: The observational multicenter study in the group of 456 HEN patients [142 children: 55 girls and 87 boys, mean (±SD) age 8.7 ± 5.9 y; 314 adults: 151 women and 163 men, mean age 59.3 ± 19.8 y] was performed between January 2007 and July 2013. Two 12-mo periods were compared. During the first period, patients were tube fed a homemade diet and were not monitored; during the other period, patients received HEN. HEN included tube feeding and complex monitoring by a nutrition support team. The number of complications, hospital admissions, length of hospital stay, biochemical and anthropometric variables, and costs of hospitalization were compared. Results: Implementation of HEN enabled weight gain and stabilized liver function in both age groups, but it hardly influenced the other tests. HEN implementation reduced the incidence of infectious complications (37.4% compared with 14.9%; P < 0.001, McNemar test), the number of hospital admissions [1.98 ± 2.42 (mean ± SD) before and 1.26 ± 2.18 after EN; P < 0.001, Wilcoxon's signed-rank test], and length of hospital stay (39.7 ± 71.9 compared with 11.9 ± 28.5 d; P < 0.001, Wilcoxon's signed-rank test). The mean annual costs ($) of hospitalization were reduced from 6500.20 ± 10,402.69 to 2072.58 ± 5497.00. Conclusions: The study showed that HEN improves clinical outcomes and decreases health care costs. It was impossible, however, to determine precisely which factor mattered more: the artificial diet itself or the introduction of complex care. (© 2014 American Society for Nutrition.)
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