RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 General practitioner prescribing of total parenteral nutrition at home
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 222
OP 222
VO 36
IS 286
A1 A.J. MacDonald-Brown
YR 1986
UL http://bjgp.org/content/36/286/222.abstract
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.