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- Title
Tube Feeding in Patients With Advances Dementia.
- Authors
Finucane, Thomas E.; Christmas, Colleen; Travis, Kathy
- Abstract
Presents results of an online search through data from 1966 to 1999 to identify whether tube feeding patients with advanced dementia can prevent aspiration pneumonia, prolong survival, reduce the risk of pressure sores or infections, improve function, or provide palliation. Findings.
- Subjects
TUBE feeding; DEMENTIA patients; ASPIRATION pneumonia; BEDSORES prevention; CARING
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999, Vol 282, Issue 14, p1365
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.282.14.1365