Feeding tubes and health costs postinsertion in nursing home residents with advanced dementia

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1116-1120

  Hwang, Deborah ^a   Teno, Joan M ^a   Gozalo, Pedro ^a   Mitchell, Susan ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced dementia; Feeding tubes; health care costs

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ECONOMICS; ENTERIC FEEDING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING HOME; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902495770     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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