Tube feeding preferences among nursing home residents

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 364-371

  O'Brien, Linda A ^a,d   Siegert, Elisabeth A ^b   Grisso, Jeane Ann ^a   Maislin, Greg ^a   LaPann, Karin ^a   Evans, Lois K ^a   Krotki, Karol P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Division of Genetics Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Cooper University Health Care 3   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Life sustaining treatment preferences; Nursing home residents; Tube feedings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TUBE FEEDING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; DECISION MAKING; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHILADELPHIA; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031009240     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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