Original / Nutrición enteral A home enteral nutrition (HEN); Spanish registry of NADYA-SENPE group; for the year 2013

Aim: to present the results of the Spanish home enteral nutrition (HEN) registry of the NADYA-SENPE group for the year 2013. Material and methods: from January 1st to December 31st 2013 data was recorded for the HEN registry and further descriptive and analytical analysis was done. Results: in this period 3 223 patients (50.6% men) and a total of 3 272 episodes of HEN were registered in 33 Spanish hospitals. The rate of prevalence was of 67,11 patients/million habitants/ year 2013. A high percentage of patients (98,24%) were older than 14 years. Adult’s mean age was 69,14 years (sd 17,64) and men were younger than women p-value <0,001. Children mean age was 2,38 years (sd 4,35). The most frequent indication for HEN was neurological disease for children (49,1%).