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Scottish Home Parenteral Nutrition Managed Clinical Network: coordination and standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2008

Janet P. Baxter*
Affiliation:
Department of Digestive Diseases and Clinical Nutrition, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
Jan M. Tait
Affiliation:
Department of Digestive Diseases and Clinical Nutrition, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
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*Corresponding author: Ms Janet Baxter, fax +44 1382 632317, email [email protected]
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Abstract

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Home parenteral nutrition is required by patients with intestinal disease such that they are unable to maintain nutritional status or fluid volume without this treatment. A Managed Clinical Network has been established in Scotland. The aims of this multi-professional group are to ensure equity of access and that patients are managed according to nationally-agreed evidence-based procedures and protocols. The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland has provided support in preparing a quality-assurance framework to which the network must adhere.

Type
Joint National Nurses Nutritional Group and Parenteral and Enteral Group of the British Dietetic Association Symposium on ‘Working in Partnership’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2002

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