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What is Ensure Plus?

ENSURE PLUS is a source of complete, balanced nutrition that provides concentrated calories, protein, and fiber to help patients gain or maintain healthy weight. It can be used with or between meals or as a meal replacement.

Reasons used & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons used
# of patients Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell 		# of patients evaluated by
Weight gain 2 1
nutrition 2 0
peg fed 1 1
additional night nutritional supplement 1 0
Other 1 0

See all 8 patients currently using Ensure Plus

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
2 100%

Schedules

  2 other daily 2 tps. daily 4 other daily 5 other daily 100 mg daily 129 mg daily 237 mL daily 400 mL daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Ensure Plus (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
1 100% Other: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped using Ensure Plus

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Ensure Plus

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

Stopped Using Ensure Plus

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
2 100%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
2 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
1 50%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
1 50%

Report created on March 17, 2010.