Home clinical nutrition and prospects for its development

There is an increase in the number of patients worldwide who require special home feeding after discharge from the hospital — Home clinical nutrition (HCN). The yearly prevalence of home clinical nutrition in 2017 was at 463 cases per million in the United States of America whereby in the 90’s it was around 163–360 per million in the United States of America and Europe. There isn’t an established practice of HCN in the Russian Federation and thereby no data on the amount of patients who require HCN and the new risks associated with it because there isn’t prior experience in conducting it. To study the routine practice and identify patients who need HCN, we planned a multicenter observational monitoring programme. The goal of the study is patient monitoring who are unable to completely cover their energy needs with the help of conventional nutrition.