Day-case percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: A viable proposition?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 893, 2000, Pages 157-159

  Mandal, A ^a,b   Steel, A ^a,b   Davidson, A R ^a,b   Ashby, C ^c  

^a Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b Directorate of Medicine   (United States)

^c Clinical Effectiveness Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034095993     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.893.157     Document Type: Article

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