Type of attending physician influenced feeding tube insertions for hospitalized elderly people with severe dementia

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 675-682

  Teno, Joan ^a   Meltzer, David O ^b   Mitchell, Susan L ^c   Fulton, Ana T ^d   Gozalo, Pedro ^a   Mor, Vincent ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research   (United States)

^d BUTLER HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PURCHASING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMENTIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS';

EID: 84898044550     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1248     Document Type: Article

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