Tube Feedings in Elderly Patients: Indications, Benefits, and Complications

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 429-433

  Ciocon, Jerry O ^a   Silverstone, Felix A ^a   Graver, L Michael ^b   Foley, Cornelius J ^a  

^a Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; THERAPY; TUBE FEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION;

EID: 0023837495     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380020173022     Document Type: Article

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