What is it about?
This article examines the controversial issue of placing a feeding tube in an individual who is no longer able to sustain adequate hydration and nutrition by mouth.
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Why is it important?
The article examines all aspects of tube feeding placement including the factors associated with costs, ethics, autonomous decision making, religion,culture, and medical necessity.
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This article is a wonderful well-rounded article that allowed myself as a doctoral student to collaborate with my mentor as well as a speech pathologist on an issue that I encounter almost daily as a practicing gerontological nurse practitioner. With an advance directive completion rate of less than 30% in this country, I can not emphasize this article's importance as part of the advance directive discussion an individual's family and significant others.
Dr JAMES F LAWRENCE
Medical Home Team/Aging Successfully, LLC/Abilene Christian University
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This page is a summary of: Tube feeding: Prolonging life or death in vulnerable populations?, Mortality, February 2005, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13576270500031089.
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