A patient with dementia and cancer: To feed via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube or not?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 711-714

  Shah, Sanjay H ^a,b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KETTERING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dementia; Palliative care; PEG feeding

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINAL CARE; TONSIL CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBE FEEDING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751203551     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216306071796     Document Type: Article

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