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Video abstract of Commentary type paper “Health care costs matter: a review of nutrition economics – is there a role for nutritional support to reduce the cost of medical health care?” published in the open access journal Nutrition and Dietary Supplements by authors Naberhuis JK, Hunt VN, Bell JD et al.

Background and aims: As policy-makers assess the value of money spent on health care,
research in the field of health economics is expanding rapidly. This review covers a period of 10
years and seeks to characterize the publication of papers at the intersection of health economics
and nutrition.
Methods: Relevant publications on nutrition care were identified in the medical literature
databases using predetermined search criteria. These included nutritional interventions linked
to health economic terms with inclusion criteria requiring original research that included clinical
outcomes and cost analyses, subjects’ ages ≥18 years, and publications in English between
January 2004 and October 2014.
Results: Of the 5,646 publications identified in first-round searches, 274 met the specified
inclusion criteria. The number of publications linking nutrition to economic outcomes has
increased markedly over the 10-year period, with a growing number of studies in both developed
and developing countries. Most studies were undertaken in Europe (39%) and the USA and
Canada (28%). The most common study setting was hospital (62%) followed by community/
noninstitutional care (30%). Of all the studies, 12% involved the use of oral nutritional supplements,
and 13% involved parenteral nutrition. The economic outcomes consistently measured
were medical care costs (53% of the studies), hospital length of stay (48%), hospital readmission
rates (9%), and mortality (25%).
Conclusion: The number of publications focused on the economics of nutrition interventions
has increased dramatically in recent years. Studies have demonstrated that malnutrition can
increase the costs of care and length of hospital stay while corresponding studies show that
nutrition interventions can help lower the cost of health care by decreasing the incidence of
complications and speeding recovery. As populations age, policies that lead to wider adoption
of screening, assessment, and treatment of malnutrition will be important to improve health
economic outcomes.

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