Cost-effectiveness of the hospital nutrition screening tool CIPA

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INTRODUCTION: Hospital malnutrition is very common and worsens the clinical course of patients while increasing costs. Lacking clinical-economic studies on the implementation of nutrition screening encouraged the evaluation of the CIPA (Control of Food Intake, Protein, Anthropometry) tool.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: An open, non-randomized, controlled clinical trial was conducted on patients admitted to internal medicine and general and digestive surgery wards, who were either assigned to a control (standard hospital clinical care) or to an intervention, CIPA-performing ward (412 and 411, respectively; n = 823). Length of stay, mortality, readmission, in-hospital complications, and quality of life were evaluated. Cost-effectiveness was analysed in terms of cost per quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).

RESULTS: The mean length of stay was higher in the CIPA group, though not significantly (+ 0.95 days; p = 0.230). On the surgical ward, more patients from the control group moved to critical care units (p = 0.014); the other clinical variables did not vary. Quality of life at discharge was similar (p = 0.53), although slightly higher in the CIPA group at 3 months (p = 0.089). Patients under CIPA screening had a higher mean cost of € 691.6 and a mean QALY gain over a 3-month period of 0.0042. While the cost per QALY for the internal medicine patients was € 642 282, the results for surgical patients suggest that the screening tool is both less costly and more effective.

CONCLUSIONS: The CIPA nutrition screening tool is likely to be cost-effective in surgical but not in internal medicine patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Archives of medical science : AMS - 16(2020), 2 vom: 07., Seite 273-281

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Suárez-Llanos, José Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Vallejo-Torres, Laura [VerfasserIn]
García-Bello, Miguel Ángel [VerfasserIn]
Hernández-Carballo, Carolina [VerfasserIn]
Calderón-Ledezma, Eduardo Mauricio [VerfasserIn]
Rosat-Rodrigo, Adriá [VerfasserIn]
Delgado-Brito, Irina [VerfasserIn]
Pereyra-García-Castro, Francisca [VerfasserIn]
Benitez-Brito, Nestor [VerfasserIn]
Felipe-Pérez, Nieves [VerfasserIn]
Ramallo-Fariña, Yolanda [VerfasserIn]
Romero-Pérez, Juan Carlos [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cost-benefit analysis
Inpatients
Journal Article
Malnutrition
Nutrition assessment
Quality of life

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Date Revised 13.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.5114/aoms.2018.81128

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307765911