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Patients’ perspectives of living with a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)

BACKGROUND: Since enteral nutrition therapy is the preferred nutritional support for dysphagic patients with a range of diagnoses, PEG has become part of traditional care. However, enteral nutrition with PEG transfers treatment responsibility and activity to the patients and their carers, so the adv...

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Autores principales: Martin, Lena, Blomberg, John, Lagergren, Pernilla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22989321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-12-126