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

NCT01696656 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2012-10-01

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Intestinal Insufficiency
  • Short Bowel Syndrome

Interventions

DRUG

Drug prescription pattern

Type, dosage, administration route and frequency of prescription of all adjuvant pharmacologic agents will be transcribed from hospital records

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bruna Z Godoy, RPh · University of Sao Paulo

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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