High short-term mortality in hospitalized patients with advanced dementia: Lack of benefit of tube feeding

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 594-599

  Meier, Diane E ^a   Ahronheim, Judith C ^b,c   Morris, Jane ^a   Baskin Lyons, Shari ^a   Morrison, R Sean ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TUBE FEEDING;

EID: 0035952295     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.161.4.594     Document Type: Article

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