Home parenteral nutrition for the patient with bowel syndrome and ostomy.
For patients who have lost all function of their gastrointestinal tract, home parenteral nutrition represents not just enormous costsavings over inpatient parenteral nutrition, it also allows patients to resume many of the routines of their daily life, at home.
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Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
D000368:Aged; D002641:Chicago; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016345:Medicare Part B; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D010030:Ostomy / Q000451:nursing*; D016331:Parenteral Nutrition, Home / Q000191:economics; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012778:Short Bowel Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D014481:United States