Pathogenic colonization of the stomach in enterally fed elderly patients: Comparing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy with nasogastric tube

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1905-1908

  Segal, Refael ^a   Dan, Michael ^b   Pogoreliuk, Irena ^a   Leibovitz, Arthur ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELDERLY CARE; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NOSE FEEDING; NURSING COMPETENCE; NURSING HOME; OROPHARYNX; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH PH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; GASTROSTOMY; GERIATRICS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845501893     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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