Abstract
Rationale: Estonian Health Insurance Fund started reimbursement for home enteral nutrition (HEN) in 2019 and this is the first study of HEN patients in Estonia. The study describes adult HEN patients and HEN service in the North Estonia Medical Centre (NEMC) in 2019‒2020. The aims were: 1) to create HEN electronic database; 2) to describe adult HEN patients´ demographic, health- and service-related factors; 3) to analyze the associations between survival and age, sex, diagnose, body mass index (BMI), type of treatment; 4) to analyze direct costs of HEN service to the healthcare system.
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