Abstract
Daily electrolyte and macronutrient changes to the parenteral nutrition (PN) order are required by the dietitian, neonatologists and pharmacists to optimize the nutritional status in premature infants. Our purpose was to determine if automation could accelerate the PN ordering and delivery process with concurrent improvements in the quality of nutritional therapy. A PN software program was designed for our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and a printer line linked the N1CU computers to the printer in pharmacy. Nutritional parameters and time variables were collected prospectively for two weeks on all NICU admissions receiving PN during both the manual phase (before automation) and computer phase of the study. These results are listed in the following table.
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