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A Clinical Trial Assessing the Safety, Efficacy, and Delivery of Olive-Oil-Based Three-Chamber Bags for Parenteral Nutrition
Published on: September 20, 2019
Impact of clinical pharmacist-based parenteral nutrition service for bone marrow transplantation patients: a
Maryam Mousavi1, Alireza Hayatshahi, Amir Sarayani
1Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Mashhad, Iran, Mousavinm@mums.ac.ir.
Purpose:
Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a well-documented supportive care which maintains the nutritional status of patients. Clinical pharmacists are often involved in providing PN services; however, few studies have investigated the effect of a clinical pharmacy-based PN service in resource-limited settings.
Methods:
We designed a randomized clinical trial to compare the clinical pharmacist-based PN service (intervention group) with the conventional method (control group) for adult patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran (2011-2012). In the intervention group, the clinical pharmacists implemented standard guidelines of nutrition support. The conventional method was a routine nutrition support protocol which was pursued for all patients in the bone marrow transplantation wards. Main study outcomes included nutritional status (weight, albumin, total protein, pre-albumin, and nitrogen balance), length of hospital stay, time to engraftment, rate of graft versus host disease, and mortality rate. Patients were followed for 3 months.
Results:
Fifty-nine patients were randomly allocated to a study group. The overall intake (oral and parenteral) in the control group was significantly lower than standard daily needed calories (P < 0.01). Patients in the intervention group received fewer days of PN (10.7 ± 4.2 vs. 18.4 ± 5.5 days, P < 0.01). All nutritional outcomes were either preserved or improved in the intervention group while the nutritional status in the control group was deteriorated (P values < 0.01). Length of hospital stay was significantly shorter in the intervention group (P < 0.01). Regarding PN complications, hyperglycemia was observed more frequently in the intervention group (34.5 %, P = 0.01). Two patients in the control group expired due to graft versus host disease at the 3-month follow-up.
Conclusion:
A clinical pharmacist-based nutrition support service significantly improved nutritional status and clinical outcomes in comparison with the suboptimal conventional method. Future studies should assess the cost effectiveness of clinical pharmacists' PN services.
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