Tube feeding in nursing home residents with severe and irreversible cognitive impairment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1593-1600

  Gessert, Charles E ^a   Mosier, Michael C ^b   Brown, Edward F ^c   Frey, Bruce ^d  

^a Office of Primary Care   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

dementia; enteral nutrition; long term care

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAID; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT SELECTION; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KANSAS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034548664     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb03869.x     Document Type: Article

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