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Recovery of oral feeding in Japanese elderly people after long-term tube feeding: A challenge in Miyama Hospital

CONTEXT: In Japan, many patients who cannot consume food orally are managed using external tube feeding over long periods. Although helpful in nutritional management, tube feeding significantly reduces a patient's quality of life. AIMS: We examined the factors that affected the transition from...

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Autores principales: Nogami, Tatsuya, Kurachi, Motonari, Hukushi, Tsugumi, Iwasaki, Koh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110796
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_567_20