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.
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.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
37
Type, dosage, administration route and frequency of prescription of all adjuvant pharmacologic agents will be transcribed from hospital records
Hospital das Clinicas- Central Institute ICHC- 9th Floor Rm 9077
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Major gastrointestinal adjuvant prescription
The most prescribed adjuvant agent for alleviation of gastrointestinal troubles such as diarrhea, malabsorption or gastric hypersecretion.
Time frame: Last 12 months
Major antibiotic adjuvant prescription
Principal antibiotic employed for suspected or actual bacterial overgrowth associated with diarrhea, malabsorption or systemic aberrations.
Time frame: Last 12 months
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