Anales de pediatría : publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)
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March 2006
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The number of children receiving prolonged home enteral nutrition (HEN) is increasing. However, precise information on the incidence and prevalence of HEN in Spain is lacking. Consequently, the Spanish Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition created a patients' register (NEPAD). The aim of the present study was to analyze the results of the first year of the NEPAD register (2003). ⋯ Despite the efforts made to maintain the on-line national register, it has been underused in its first year of existence (2003). Patients with gastrointestinal or neurological diseases constitute the main group of patients in the register. There is a slight preference for the use of nasogastric tube over gastrostomy.