End-of-life nutrition: Is tube feeding the solution?

Annals of Long-Term Care

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 30-33

  Friedrich, Liz ^a  

^a Friedrich Nutrition Counseling   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Hospice care; Tube feeding

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMOTION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FOOD ASPIRATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH BELIEF; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN INJURY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERFORATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHYDRATION; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH TUBE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 84887007862     PISSN: 15247929     EISSN: 19435010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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