Emergency department visits and hospitalizations by tube-fed nursing home residents with varying degrees of cognitive impairment: a national study

BACKGROUND: Numerous studies indicate that the use of feeding tubes (FT) in persons with advanced cognitive impairment (CI) does not improve clinical outcomes or survival, and results in higher rates of hospitalization and emergency department (ED) visits. It is not clear, however, whether such risk...

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Hlavní autoři: Stephens, Caroline E, Sackett, Nathan, Govindarajan, Prasanthi, Lee, Sei J
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: BioMed Central 2014
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994482/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24650076
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-35
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