Feeding tubes and the prevention or healing of pressure ulcers

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 697-701

  Teno, Joan M ^a   Gozalo, Pedro ^a   Mitchell, Susan L ^b   Kuo, Sylvia ^a   Fulton, Ana T ^c   Mor, Vincent ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^c BUTLER HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUBE; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PRESSURE ULCER; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861173115     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1200     Document Type: Article

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