Factors predictive of survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in the elderly: Is dementia really a risk factor?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1011-1016

  Higaki, Fumiyo ^a   Yokota, Osamu ^a,b   Ohishi, Masahiro ^a  

^a Tottori Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMENTIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 41849125637     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01719.x     Document Type: Article

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