Use review of nutritionally complete liquid diets
Ponte, C.D.; Lipman, A.G.; Moran, C.P.
American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 35(2): 159-162
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9289 PMID: 626197 Document Number: 128122
A study was made to determine the manner in which semisynthetic fibre-free liquid diets and complete oral liquid diets were being used in a large teaching hospital and to determine the influence of the establishment of a dietary formulary and guidelines on prescribing. A use review of the dietary formulations was made before and after the publication of the formulary and guidelines; 95 patients were monitored on 22 adult medical, surgical, psychiatric and gynaecological divisions. The inappropriate or questionable orders for all types of dietary formulations decreased from 65% to 52% after the publication of the formulary and guidelines. There was a significant decrease in orders for semisynthetic fibre-free diets, from 34 to 4, after publication of the formulary and guidelines. The guidelines and formulary seemed to have caused the decreased use of the diet formulations and to have aided in eliminating less than optimum prescribing of the products.