Ethical and Medicolegal Issues Related to Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Placement

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 805-815

  Ritchie, Christine S ^a,b   Wilcox, C Mel ^c   Kvale, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY INTAKE; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STOMACH TUBE;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LIABILITY, LEGAL;

EID: 35549002199     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2007.08.001     Document Type: Review

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