A923from an official publication of the Ministry of Health. A sensitivity analysis of 1000 simulations was performed on both outcome variables and costs through a Monte Carlo model using gamma distributions. Results: Nutrition care interventions targeting hospitalized at-risk and malnourished patients could contribute to cost savings of US $503.3 million ($1.5 billion COP) annually. Additionally, reduction of unplanned readmissions contributes to cost savings of US $77.1 million ($230.000 COP million) per year, while rationalization of hospital diets and wasting contributes to cost savings of US $1.3 million ($ 3.900 million COP) per year. This translates into total savings of US $580.4 million (1.7 billion COP), which represents the cost needed to attend 10% of inpatients admitted to Colombian hospitals in one year. ConClusions: Nutrition care interventions targeting at-risk and malnourished hospitalized patients can generate significant cost savings for the Colombian health care system as a result of reducing patient hospital length of stay, cost per event, unplanned hospital readmissions, rationalizing hospital diets, and increasing the capability of hospital beds utilization without having to incur additional investment expenses.

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