Enteral feeding tubes in end-stage dementia patients: To insert or not to insert? Administrative and financial aspects

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 467-469

  Clarfield, A Mark ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elderly; End stage dementia; Enteral feeding

Indexed keywords

AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LAW; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

AGED; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; ISRAEL; LONG-TERM CARE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 22144464806     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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