Rethinking the role of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia.
Rethinking the role of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia.
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重新思考管饲在晚期痴呆患者中的作用。
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
M. Gillick
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Gillick
A byproduct of the aging of the population has been a dramatic rise in the rate of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. A conservative estimate is that there are currently 4 million people in the United States with dementia.1 In the final stage of dementia, patients are typically unable to walk or to feed themselves, they are incontinent and aphasic, and they have lost the capacity to have relationships with other people. Family members or other surrogate decision makers must make difficult and often painful decisions about limiting care.2 Should they authorize surgery, hospitalization, intravenous medication? Is a . . .
影响因子:
39.2
作者:
Lo,B;Steinbrook,R
通讯作者:
Steinbrook,R
DOI:
10.1093/gerona/53a.3.m207
发表时间:
1998
期刊:
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
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作者:
Mitchell,SL;Kiely,DK;Lipsitz,LA
通讯作者:
Lipsitz,LA