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

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

Abstract 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 seve...

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Main Authors: Shintaro Takenoshita, Keiko Kondo, Keiichi Okazaki, Akihiko Hirao, Keiko Takayama, Keisuke Hirayama, Hiroyuki Asaba, Kenji Nakata, Hideki Ishizu, Hiromi Takahashi, Hanae Nakashima-Yasuda, Yasue Sakurada, Kengo Fujikawa, Osamu Yokota, Norihito Yamada, Seishi Terada, Middle Western Japan-Dementia Study (mid-Dem study)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
Subjects:
Dementia
Nasogastric tube
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Pneumonia
Tube feeding
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-017-0662-6

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