[Description of a computer program and results of its application to the follow up of enteral nutrition].
Computerization has been introduced little by little in the different activities which take place in a department of pharmacy, due to the fact that it means an increased agility of the tasks to be performed as well as an improvement of the care and managerial quality. In our hospital, the department of pharmacy makes up enteral nutrition units, and it participates in the follow up and control of the patients with this type of nutrition through a computer program designed for this purpose. The objective of the present study is to describe this computerized program as well as the results obtained by its application. The enteral nutrition computer program is made up of two data bases which are indexed between each other: that of daily follow up of the enteral nutrition prescriptions, and that of the follow up of the patients who have been given this nutritional support. In this way it allows us to obtain identification labels and consumption listings. During a two year period a total of 632 enteral nutrition treatments were given. The department with the greatest number of prescriptions was internal medicine (187, 29.5%). The polymeric diets were the most frequently used (435, 68.7%). The have mainly been used as a supplement to a hospital kitchen diet (149, 41.8%). The oral administration was the most frequent route of administration (331, 52.4%). The main reason for not implementing the nutrition was refusal by the patient (114, 38%). The computer program allows greater agility of the circuit which in our hospital generates the preparation of the enteral nutrition formulations, which are made up in the Department of Pharmacy, and given the large number of variables which this implies, this means a quality guarantee in the preparation and follow up of the patients with enteral nutrition.
Hidalgo Correas
F J
FJ
Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Severo Ochoa, Leganés, Madrid, España.
Carrasco Real
J M
JM
de Juana Velasco
P
P
García Díaz
B
B
Bermejo Vicedo
T
T
D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital; D011786:Quality Control; D012984:Software; D013997:Time Factors
Descripción de un programa informático y resultados de la aplicación del mismo al seguimiento de la nutrición enteral.