Appropriate use of (home) artificial nutrition: Ethical implications

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages 35-38

  Contaldo, F ^a   Pasanisi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial nutrition; Cancer; Ethics; Terminal patients

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ASPIRATION; CACHEXIA; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; EUTHANASIA; EXTUBATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERVOLEMIA; INFECTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT RIGHT; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUICIDE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 0034916921     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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