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%) and for adults (60,6%). Gastrostomy was the most used administration route for children (51%) while younger ones were fed with NGT (p-value 0,003) also older adults (48%) were fed with this type of tube (p-value <0,001). The most frequent reasons for cessation of treatment was death, 44,4% were children and 54,7% were adults. Conclusions: The number of patients and hospitals registered increased in the last years while the other variables maintain steady. The registry developed allowing contrasted analysis of data in order to get more information.