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Complex Feeding Decisions: Perceptions of Staff, Patients, and Their Families in the Inpatient Hospital Setting

Objective: Where swallowing difficulties are chronic or progressive, or a patient is palliative, tube feeding is often not deemed appropriate. Instead, patients continue to eat and drink despite the risks of pneumonia and death. There is currently little evidence to guide clinical practice in this f...

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Autores principales: Miles, Anna, Watt, Tanya, Wong, Wei-Yuen, McHutchison, Louise, Friary, Philippa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721416665523