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A Nutrition Support Service Web Application to Manage Patients Receiving Parenteral Nutrition

From The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.

Correspondence: Address correspondence to: Jay M. Mirtallo, MS, RPh, BCNSP, FASHP, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy, DN 368, 410 W. 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210; e-mail: jay.mirtallo{at}osumc.edu.

Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a complex therapy that requires expertise and experience to avoid errors in prescribing and management. Because of care coordination issues, one medical center has developed and implemented a Web-based application to manage PN patients. PN orders have already been programmed into the physician order entry system, but the nutrition support service (NSS) consult and daily PN management have been performed using paper forms. The Web system is developed for ease of use by clinicians and accessibility at any computer within the medical center. The database consists of 12 tables interrelated by the patient medical record number, admission number, or location. The NSS consult is the main table used to navigate to the other tables. Update of the laboratory and PN formula table must be done through the consult table. The system is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act guidelines, and has been developed so that the forms that are required to be placed in the patient's permanent record can be printed. Demographic information and laboratory data are automatically populated via a link to the medical center's medication management system. At present, there are 1393 patients in the database and 21,000 pages are viewed each month during daily PN management by clinicians. Data can be easily retrieved for management reports. Data elements can be exported directly from the database to worksheets. This function has been used for projects designed to improve the efficiency of this PN system.

Key Words: parenteral nutrition • total parenteral nutrition • clinical decision support systems • user-computer interface • therapy, computer-assisted

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 24, No. 4, 447-458 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0884533609339068


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