… In Ontario, institutionalized, tube-fed patients are designated as requiring chronic care.
Therefore, we sampled all tube-fed older patients in chronic care beds in Ottawa from September …

… The question of how we care for people with severe cognitive impairment at the end of life …
that the use of feeding tubes in individuals with very severe cognitive impairment near the end …

… Our objective was to examine how patient factors and facility characteristics independently
influence feeding tube use among severely cognitively impaired older persons residing in US …

… placement in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment. However, there is …
tube fed. These prognostic data are important for health care providers, families, and patients …

… tube fed had their feeding tube inserted during an acute care … of acute care hospitals associated
with greater rates of feeding tube … patients admitted with advanced cognitive impairment. …

… of feeding tube use among 385 741 US nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment,
as evidenced by a cognitive … use of feeding tubes among severely cognitively impaired …

… We used this information to design a decision aid for SDMs facing the dilemma of whether
to initiate long-term tube feeding in a cognitively impaired person 65 years and older. This …

… enteral feeding via a nasogastric tube or via a tube passed by percutaneous endoscopic
gastrostomy were selected. The study population comprised adults … severe cognitive impairment…

… insertion rates) did not improve survival for patients with advanced cognitive impairment.
Our findings were consistent with the results of prior research that showed tube feeding does …

… Thus, our finding that one in four tube-fed NH residents require hospitalization or ED visits
likely represents a substantial burden for this vulnerable cognitively impaired population. …