Oral care may reduce pneumonia in the tube-fed elderly: A preliminary study

Dysphagia

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 616-621

  Maeda, Keisuke ^a   Akagi, Junji ^b  

^a Tamana Regional Health Medical Center   (Japan)

^b Tamana Regional Health Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deglutition; Deglutition disorders; Enteral nutrition; Oral care; Oral hygiene; Pneumonia; Tube fed patients

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOTENE; CHLORHEXIDINE; DRUG COMBINATION; GLUCOSE OXIDASE; LACTOPEROXIDASE; LYSOZYME; SERUM ALBUMIN; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMMOBILITY; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; DRUG COMBINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION; MASSAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROCEDURES; SALIVARY GLAND; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH BRUSHING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BODY MASS INDEX; CHLORHEXIDINE; CONTROLLED BEFORE-AFTER STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE OXIDASE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LACTOPEROXIDASE; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MASSAGE; MURAMIDASE; ORAL HYGIENE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVARY GLANDS; SERUM ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 84939415937     PISSN: 0179051X     EISSN: 14320460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00455-014-9553-6     Document Type: Article

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