Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02122120
The Value of Aritficial Diet and Complex Care in Home Nutrition
Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) Reduces Complications, Length of Stay and Health-care Costs: Results From the Multicenter Study.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 456 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Stanley Dudrick's Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
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 the long-term feeding and the subsequent analyses of the clinical value of the latter and its cost-effectiveness.
Detailed description
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 the long-term feeding and the subsequent analyses of the clinical value of the latter and its cost-effectiveness. Design: The observational multicentre study in the group of 456 HEN patients was performed between January 2007 and July 2013. Two twelve-month periods were compared. During the first one patients were tube fed with home-made diet without monitoring, while during the other the complex HEN was carried out. The latter included tube feeding and complex monitoring by nutrition support team. Number of complications, hospital admissions, length of hospital stay (LOS), biochemical and anthropometric parameters and costs of hospitalization were compared.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | HEN | Patients with tube feeding with FSMP for at least twelve months |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2007-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2012-12-01
- Completion
- 2013-01-01
- First posted
- 2014-04-24
- Last updated
- 2014-04-24
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Poland
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