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The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting
A health economic analysis was performed to assess the economic impact on the national health care budget of using oral nutritional supplements (ONS), being a food for special medical purposes also known as medical nutrition, for the treatment of disease related malnutrition (DRM) in the community i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22629244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2012.00078 |
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author | Freijer, Karen Nuijten, Mark J. C. Schols, Jos M. G. A. |
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description | A health economic analysis was performed to assess the economic impact on the national health care budget of using oral nutritional supplements (ONS), being a food for special medical purposes also known as medical nutrition, for the treatment of disease related malnutrition (DRM) in the community in the Netherlands. An economic model was developed to calculate the budget impact of using ONS in community dwelling elderly (>5 years) with DRM in the Netherlands. The model reflects the costs of DRM and the cost reductions resulting from improvement in DRM due to treatment with ONS. Using ONS for the treatment of DRM in community dwelling elderly, leads to a total annual cost savings of € 13 million (18.9% savings), when all eligible patients are treated. The additional costs of ONS (€ 57 million) are more than balanced by a reduction of other health care costs, e.g., re-/hospitalization (€ 70 million). Sensitivity analyses were performed on all parameters, including duration of treatment with ONS and the prevalence of DRM. This budget impact analysis shows that the use of ONS for treatment of DRM in elderly patients in the community may lead to cost savings in the Netherlands. |
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spelling | pubmed-33552952012-05-24 The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting Freijer, Karen Nuijten, Mark J. C. Schols, Jos M. G. A. Front Pharmacol Pharmacology A health economic analysis was performed to assess the economic impact on the national health care budget of using oral nutritional supplements (ONS), being a food for special medical purposes also known as medical nutrition, for the treatment of disease related malnutrition (DRM) in the community in the Netherlands. An economic model was developed to calculate the budget impact of using ONS in community dwelling elderly (>5 years) with DRM in the Netherlands. The model reflects the costs of DRM and the cost reductions resulting from improvement in DRM due to treatment with ONS. Using ONS for the treatment of DRM in community dwelling elderly, leads to a total annual cost savings of € 13 million (18.9% savings), when all eligible patients are treated. The additional costs of ONS (€ 57 million) are more than balanced by a reduction of other health care costs, e.g., re-/hospitalization (€ 70 million). Sensitivity analyses were performed on all parameters, including duration of treatment with ONS and the prevalence of DRM. This budget impact analysis shows that the use of ONS for treatment of DRM in elderly patients in the community may lead to cost savings in the Netherlands. Frontiers Research Foundation 2012-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3355295/ /pubmed/22629244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2012.00078 Text en Copyright © 2012 Freijer, Nuijten and Schols. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Pharmacology Freijer, Karen Nuijten, Mark J. C. Schols, Jos M. G. A. The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting |
title | The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting |
title_full | The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting |
title_fullStr | The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting |
title_full_unstemmed | The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting |
title_short | The Budget Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements for Disease Related Malnutrition in Elderly in the Community Setting |
title_sort | budget impact of oral nutritional supplements for disease related malnutrition in elderly in the community setting |
topic | Pharmacology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22629244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2012.00078 |
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