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A Cost-Utility Analysis of the Home Parenteral Nutrition Program at Toronto General Hospital: 1970-1982

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

John R. Mclaughlin, M.Sc.

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Howard B. Abrams, M.D.

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

J. Scott Whittaker, M.D.

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Jocelyn Whitwell, B.SC.N.

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Kristan L'Abbé, M.SC.

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy, M.B.B.S., PH.D.

Departments of Health Administration and Medicine, University of Toronto and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

We performed an economic evaluation of a home parenteral nutrition (HPN) program by measuring the incremental costs and health outcomes for a cohort of 73 patients treated at our institution from November 1970 to July 1982.

Over a 12-year time frame, we estimate that HPN resulted in a net savings in health care costs of $19,232 per patient and an increase in survival, adjusted for quality of life, of 3.3 years, compared with the alternative of treating these patients in hospital with intermittent nutritional support when needed. This result was sensitive to assumptions made about the cost of the alternative treatment strategy. When these assumptions were most unfavorable to the HPN program, we estimated that HPN resulted in incremental costs of $48,180 over 12 years, $14,600 per quality-adjusted life-year gained.

We conclude that the cost-utility of HPN compares favorably with other health care programs, when HPN is used to treat patients with gut failure secondary to conditions such as Crohn's disease or acute volvulus. Since only one patient with active malignancy was enrolled in our HPN program, these results should not be extrapolated to patients with active malignancy. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 10:49-57, 1986)

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 10, No. 1, 49-57 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/014860718601000149


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