Pause before a PEG: A feeding tube may not be necessary in every candidate!

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 453-456

  Aparanji, Krishna P ^a   Dharmarajan, T S ^a,b  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Outcomes with PEG; PEG; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHICS; FEEDING APPARATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; UTILIZATION;

AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 77954623241     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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