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Organization and reimbursement of enteral and parenteral nutrition in and outside the hospital in Belgium
KCE Reports 315C (2019)In Belgium, 33% of hospital patients, 16% of residential care residents, and nearly 13% of elderly people living at home suffer from malnutrition. For people who are not or no longer capable of feeding themselves normally, food must be administered via a tube into their digestive tract (enteral nutrition), or via a drip directly into their blood stream (parenteral nutrition).In Belgium, the reimbursement rules for these two types of nutrition are not always logical.
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