Abstract
To investigate the use state of the enteral nutrients, we used in the database of the software program “Resipos Ver.1” for both regimen registration and retrieval, and analyzed the regiments is recipe having been issued by hospital of the Okinawa prefecture in 11 facilities.
As a result, enteral nutrients were found to be most frequently prescribed in the internal medicine department, followed by surgery department, and about 80% of all such cases are prescribed by there two departments.
Regarding the age distribution of the patients for whom enteral nutrient are prescribed, 56% of the patient was older than 65 years old. As a result large amount of enteral nutrients were found to be prescribed for elderly patients.
In addition, ENSURE LIQUID was frequently used as a kind of the medicine and it accounted for about 53% of the all cases using enteral nutrients.
Consequently, enteral nutrients with similar characteristics, components, are frequently prescribed.
