QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN PARENTERAL NUTRITION CARE

The therapeutic objective of parenteral nutrition, as well as any other pharmacological treatment, must be organized for and focused on the patient, to obtain outcomes associated with an improvement in health status and quality of life. On this basis, the present article starts with a view of qualit...

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Published in:Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) Scotland), 2001-02, Vol.20 (1), p.83-91
Main Authors: FONT-NOGUERA, I., CERCÓS-LLETÍ, A.-C., LLOPIS-SALVIA, P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Emergency and intensive care: metabolism and nutrition disorders. Enteral and parenteral nutrition
Health Status
Humans
Intensive care medicine
Medical sciences
Nutrition Assessment
parenteral nutrition
Parenteral Nutrition - standards
practice guidelines
Quality Assurance, Health Care
quality improvement
Quality of Life
Therapy, Computer-Assisted
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Summary:The therapeutic objective of parenteral nutrition, as well as any other pharmacological treatment, must be organized for and focused on the patient, to obtain outcomes associated with an improvement in health status and quality of life. On this basis, the present article starts with a view of quality improvement in health care, identifying the structure, process and outcome paradigm for drug therapy and parenteral nutrition elements of quality assessment, as well as strategies for quality improvement will be described. A model of the organization assigned to parenteral nutrition care is proposed. In the future, computerized programs of parenteral nutrition may increase the risk of uncoordinated and fragmented care. The programs must improve health care of patient by exposing caregivers to the full alternatives of decisions with clinical and therapeutic data on patient individual.
ISSN:0261-5614
1532-1983
DOI:10.1054/clnu.2000.0361