Cost-effectiveness of the hospital nutrition screening tool CIPA.

ABSTRACT:

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-a

SUBMITTER: Suarez-Llanos JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069439 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature