Patterns of prophylactic gastrostomy tube placement in head and neck cancer patients: A consideration of the significance of social support and practice variation

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1918-1925

  Locher, Julie L ^a,b,c,d   Bonner, James A ^d,e   Carroll, William R ^d,f   Caudell, Jimmy J ^d,e,g   Allison, Jeroan J ^h   Kilgore, Meredith L ^b,c,d   Ritchie, Christine S ⁱ   Tajeu, Gabriel S ^b   Yuan, Ya ^b   Roth, David L ^j  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^g H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

gastrostomy tube; Head and neck cancer; practice variation; social support

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVORCED PERSON; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEPARATED PERSON; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STOMACH TUBE; URBAN AREA; WIDOWED PERSON;

GASTROSTOMY TUBE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; PRACTICE VARIATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

AGED; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880569797     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24022     Document Type: Article

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