Predicting the insertion distance for placing gastric tubes

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-27

  Cirgin Ellett, Marsha L ^a   Beckstrand, Jan ^a   Flueckiger, Joyce ^b,d   Perkins, Susan M ^c   Johnson, Cynthia S ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clarian Health System Hospitals

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Enteral nutrition; Feeding tube; Gastric tube placement; Nasogastric tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NOSE; PREDICTION; SEX RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NOMOGRAMS; NOSE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UMBILICUS;

EID: 13144261715     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773804270919     Document Type: Article

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