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Nutrition in Clinical Practice
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Generic Enteral Formulas: A New Idea for the 1990s

Stacey J. Bell, DSc, RD

Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Scientific Advisory Board of Nutrition Medical Inc., Buffalo, MN

Jennifer A. Stack, RD

Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, clinical trial evaluating the generic formula from Nutrition Medical Inc

R. Armour Forse, MD, PHD

Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School

Cora Delfierro, RD

St. Joseph's Hospital, Syracuse, New York

Ellen Wade, RD, MS

Community Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia

Peter Burke, MD

Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School

Generic equivalent enteral formulas are now commercially available. The purpose of this article is threefold: (1) to define generic equivalents and compare both their nutritional and monetary differences with brand name products, (2) to provide the clinician with factors to consider when evaluating generic formulas— the source and distribution of macronutrients and micro-nutrients, and patient tolerance, nutritional status and outcome—and (3) to provide information on how to incorporate generic enteral formulas onto an institution's enteral formulary. In today's environment of diminishing health care budgets, generic enteral formulas can play a role in cost containment without sacrificing quality nutritional care.

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 10, No. 6, 237-241 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/0115426595010006237
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