Tube feeding decreases pneumonia rate in patients with severe dementia: comparison between pre- and post-intervention

BACKGROUND: It is widely supposed that there is no benefit, including extended survival and decreased rate of pneumonia, in patients with severe dementia receiving enteral tube feeding (TF). However, there have been few studies comparing the frequency of pneumonia before and after TF in severe demen...

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Autores principales: Takenoshita, Shintaro, Kondo, Keiko, Okazaki, Keiichi, Hirao, Akihiko, Takayama, Keiko, Hirayama, Keisuke, Asaba, Hiroyuki, Nakata, Kenji, Ishizu, Hideki, Takahashi, Hiromi, Nakashima-Yasuda, Hanae, Sakurada, Yasue, Fujikawa, Kengo, Yokota, Osamu, Yamada, Norihito, Terada, Seishi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29157223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0662-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29157223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0662-6

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