2020-09-032020-09-032019-10-24Campos Martín, C., García Torres, M.D., Castillo Martín, C., Domínguez Rabadán, R. y Rabat Restrepo, J.M. (2019). Patients Discharged with Home Enteral Nutrition from a Third-Level Hospital in 2018. Nutrients, 11 (2570), 1-6.2072-6643https://hdl.handle.net/11441/100677Patients who, during admission, begin to use enteral nutrition (EN) and do not recover adequate oral intake need proper planning prior to discharge. The present study is a descriptive analysis of patients discharged with EN from our hospital in 2018. In all, the study included 141 patients (50.3% male) with an average age of 76.18 14 years with the most frequent reasons for enteral support being neurological disease (71.3%) and ear, nose, and throat (ENT) and maxillofacial surgery (17.02%) (others accounted for 11.68%). In these two groups, di erences were observed in both the average age (77 vs. 70.5 years) and sex of patients—mostly women (58%) in the first group and men (70%) in the second. Overall, the access routes used were nasogastric tube (76.4%), and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (18.4%); 67.1% of the episodes ended by 30 June, 60.6% of patients died (47% of neurological patients), and 39.3% patients recovered function of the oral passage (85% of surgical/head and neck tumor). The duration of support was as follows: 1–3 months, 32%; 6–12 months, 26.9%; more than 12 months, 18.5%. This indicated some frequent and clearly di erentiated profiles in the patients studied, which may contribute to better care and support in order to maintain long-term treatment.application/pdf6 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Home enteral nutritionNutritional supportDysphagiaStrokeHead and neck tumorinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess