Pharmaceutical Care in the Home Care Setting: Focus on Total Parenteral Nutrition

Abstract

Cognitive services provided by the pharmacist have played a critical role in the successful development and implementation of home infusion services in the 1970s and 1980s. Pharmacists, working with the health care team that manages patients who receive infusion therapy in the home, used their clinical skills to support patients and other team members. They did this by evaluating patients before admission to the service, along with supporting the training, education, and monitoring of the patients receiving infusion therapy in the home. These services were provided on an ongoing basis.