To PEG or Not to PEG

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1451-1452

  Wilcox, C Mel ^a   McClave, Stephen A ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHICIST; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 84885863477     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.07.009     Document Type: Editorial

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