[Drug administration in patients on enteral nutrition: the nasoenteral route versus the parenteral route].
The administration of medications through a nasoenteral tube or enterostomy is an alternative to the parenteral route, as this is more comfortable, less aggressive for the patient, and cheaper. The objective of this study was to potentiate the nasoenteral route versus the parenteral route and the quantify the economic repercussions. For this we carried out a prospective study of the prescriptions in 100% of the patients with enteral nutrition through a tube over a six month period. Informative notes were sent to the clinicians for those patients who met the established inclusion criteria and who were candidates for changing the route of administration. Of the 542 medications susceptible to the change, 217 were changed to the nasoenteral route. The economic savings during this period were 1,401,095 pesetas, and we consider the main advantage of the change in method is not economical, but rather the greater degree of satisfaction that the patient derives from this, as well as making a release from hospital with at home enteral nutrition easier.
Piñeiro Corrales
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Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Provincial, Pontevedra, España.
Olivera Fernández
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López-Gil Otero
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D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004333:Drug Administration Routes; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000191:economics; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013030:Spain
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations