To PEG or not to PEG

Clinical Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 250-255

  Pennington, Christopher ^a  

^a NHS TAYSIDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefits; Community; CPD; Disadvantages; Duration; Enteral tube feeding; Ethics; Indications; Methods; Organisation; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHICS; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STANDARD; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

AGE FACTORS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0036562803     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-3-250     Document Type: Article

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