Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Use of feeding tubes decreases among nursing home residents with advanced dementia

Use of feeding tubes decreases among nursing home residents with advanced dementia:

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In a study appearing in the August 16 issue of JAMA, Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., of Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined feeding tube insertion rates from 2000-2014 among U.S. nursing home residents with advanced dementia.


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