Costs associated to disease-related malnutrition and treatment: a literature review

Nutrición hospitalaria
Samara Palma MillaCarmen Gómez-Candela

Abstract

disease-related malnutrition has a high prevalence, with clinical consequences potentially severe for the patient, and of high economic impact for the healthcare system. to perform a review of the literature regarding the economic burden of disease-related malnutrition, to assess complications, and to determine the usefulness of enteral or oral nutritional supplementation from a cost analysis perspective. a review of the literature up to June 2016 was carried out regarding economic costs of disease-related malnutrition and cost analysis of nutritional treatment, with special focus on retrieval of systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and randomized clinical trials. a total of 31 publications were selected, 15 on costs of disease-related malnutrition and 16 on costs of treatment. Disease-related malnutrition increases health care costs in relation to a longer hospital stay, higher incidence of infectious and non-infectious complications, greater need of treatment, increase in readmissions, more prolonged stay in the intensive care unit and/or the need of referral to continuing care centers at discharge. Publications regarding treatment with oral nutritional supplements suggest that these oral supplements are cost-effective and cost...Continue Reading

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