%0 Journal Article %A A.J. MacDonald-Brown %T General practitioner prescribing of total parenteral nutrition at home %D 1986 %J The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners %P 222-222 %V 36 %N 286 %X 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. %U https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/36/286/222.full.pdf