作者
Loris Pironi, M Candusso, A Biondo, A Bosco, P Castaldi, Franco Contaldo, E Finocchiaro, A Giannoni, S Mazzuoli, P Orlandoni, A Palozzo, C Panella, S Pasto, E Ruggeri, G Sandri, E Stella, Gabriele Toigo
发表日期
2007/2/1
期刊
Clinical Nutrition
卷号
26
期号
1
页码范围
123-132
出版商
Churchill Livingstone
简介
AIM
To determine the prevalence (cases per million inhabitants) of home artificial nutrition (HAN), enteral (HEN) and parenteral (HPN), in Italy, grouped according to administrative regions, patient age and primary disease, and to analyze the impact both of the presence of an HAN regional regulation and of demographic characteristics.
METHODS
In April 2005, the Regional Coordinators of the Italian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (SINPE) recorded all the ongoing cases of HAN using a structured questionnaire and were asked to estimate the representativeness of the collected sample with respect to the total expected HAN.
RESULTS
A total of 6955 cases of HAN (93.5% adults, 6.5% pediatric patients ⩽18 years) were recorded in 16 of the 20 Italian regions (80% of the Italian population; sample representativeness 78%). HAN prevalence 152.6 (83.9% HEN, 16.1% HPN); the HAN range among the …
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