[Contribution of hospital pharmacists for home parenteral nutrition--the case we were concerned with pharmaceutical management and support in mixing of injections].

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a useful measure when cancer patients are hoping to have a transition from the hospital to a home medical care arrangement. A contribution of pharmacist performing HPN to a patient is to manage pharmaceuticals so that an appropriate medicine is used for not only the prescription design of the infusion solution but also to give a relaxation care. Based on the patient information record gathered by a home-visit nursing care program, we tried to study what pharmacists could do to help the patient after he was discharged.

[A contribution of the hospital pharmacy for home parenteral nutrition--utilization of a HPN report form].

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a useful measure when terminal cancer patients are hoping to have a transition from the hospital to a home medical care arrangement. Our department has been supporting their family by mixing injections at our clean room. We created a HPN report form to check for an incompatibility of injections, and to prepare an infusion set by our department.