PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A.J. MacDonald-Brown
TI  - General practitioner prescribing of total parenteral nutrition at home
DP  - 1986 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 222--222
VI  - 36
IP  - 286
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/36/286/222.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/36/286/222.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1986 May 01; 36
AB  - 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.