To feed or not to feed the terminal demented patient - Is there any question?

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 507-508

  Shapiro, Dvorah S ^a   Friedmann, Reuven ^a,b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Neve Horim Home for the Aged   (Israel)

Author keywords

Enteral feeding; Terminal dementia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CAREGIVER; DEMENTIA; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TUBE FEEDING; WOUND INFECTION;

DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33746464377     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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