General practitioner prescribing of total parenteral nutrition at home.
An increasing number of patients, returning to the community after major surgical procedures, receive short- or long-term total parenteral nutrition at home. As total parenteral nutrition is initiated by specialist hospital centres patients may find themselves a considerable distance from that centre when they return home. The hospital may therefore relinquish responsibility for funding the supply of parenteral fluid to a more local source.This report describes how total parenteral nutrition can be managed by a general practitioner.
D000328:Adult; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D010821:Physicians, Family