Tube feeding patients with dementia

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 142-146

  Chernoff, Ronni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEEDING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEMORY DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; REVIEW; TUBE FEEDING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHICS; GASTROSTOMY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, CLINICAL; GASTROSTOMY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747074410     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0115426506021002142     Document Type: Review

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