NCT01696656

Prescription Pattern of Adjuvant Drugs and Vitamins in Patients Undergoing Long-term Home Nutritional Support for Intestinal Insufficiency

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Intestinal insufficiency due to short bowel syndrome is a chronic, disabling condition with significant morbidity and mortality.Standard care includes home parenteral/enteral nutrition as well as intestinal transplantation, however multiple drugs, vitamins, antibiotics and symptom-relieving agents may be required. Prescriptional pattern of these drugs will be analyzed in a clinical cohort.

Detailed description

Intestinal insufficiency due to short bowel syndrome is a chronic, disabling condition with significant morbidity and mortality.Standard care includes home parenteral/enteral nutrition as well as intestinal transplantation, however multiple drugs, vitamins, antibiotics and symptom-relieving agents may be required. Little attention has been given to the indications and dosage schedules of such drugs, many of which are employed as off-label prescriptions because of lack of official guidelines. Prescriptional patterns of these drugs will be analyzed in a clinical cohort of home parenteral/enteral nutrition patients, registered at the outpatient service of Hospital das Clinicas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Conditions

• Intestinal Insufficiency
• Short Bowel Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Drug prescription pattern	Type, dosage, administration route and frequency of prescription of all adjuvant pharmacologic agents will be transcribed from hospital records

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2012-10-01
• Last updated: 2012-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil