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- Title
Analysis of patients' rights: dementia and PEG insertion.
- Authors
Dennehy, Christine
- Abstract
The decision to provide or withhold artificial feeding in patients with advanced dementia presents a multifaceted ethical dilemma. This article analyses the issues of rights regarding such patients and explores the ethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, respect/autonomy, justice and veracity. Evidence points strongly to hand-feeding being the method of choice for these patients (Finucane et al, 1999; Li, 2002). However, for each case there is no right or wrong answer and the physical and psychological wellbeing of the individual patient must be taken into account.
- Publication
British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing), 2006, Vol 15, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0966-0461
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.12968/bjon.2006.15.1.20303