Enteral feeding in terminal dementia - A dilemma without a consensual solution

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 503-504

  Van Dijk, Yehuda ^a,b   Sonnenblick, Moshe ^a,b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Dementia; Enteral feeding; Jewish ethics; Legislation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; COLON FISTULA; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DYING; EMOTION; ENTERIC FEEDING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HYDRATION; ISRAEL; LAW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERITONITIS; RELIGION; SKIN INFECTION; STOMACH FISTULA; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TUBE FEEDING; ULCER HEALING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33746449567     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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