Tendencias de los análisis de costos de las tecnologías en soporte nutricional enteral en pacientes hospitalizados

Abstract

Background: The role of nutrition in hospital settings is of paramount relevance to community health, given the burden imposed by malnutrition associated with disease on patients that leads to the need to optimize the use of resources available in health systems. The objective was to identify analysis trends in the economic evaluation of enteral nutritional support technologies in hospitalized patients. Methods: A review of the literature was conducted, based on a bibliographic crawl taking into account elements of the methodology established by the Review and Dissemination Centre (CRD) of the University of York, from January 2005 to July 2017. Reports were included in English and Spanishindex (BMI) was calculated at the time of admission to the program and on different rehabilitation stages. Results: 21 reports were identified, in the classification of the publications, articles related to cost effectiveness analysis, cost minimization and systematic reviews on the subject predominated, while articles related to cost benefit and cost utility analysis represented the lowest proportion. Conclusions: Trends in economic analysis of enteral nutritional support technologies in hospitalized patients focus on cost-effectiveness analysis of nutritional support and cost-effectiveness of specialized nutritional formulas.