Background: Little is known about the attitudes of internists regarding their ethical obligation
to provide or withhold tube feeding in three clinical contexts when patient preferences are …

… We review the prevalence of, indications for, and alternatives to long-term tube feeding, as
… -term tube feeding. We discuss our approach by applying nutritional and ethical principles to …

… Caregivers and family members are forced to deal with questions about tube feeding at the
… The vast majority of Americans say they do not want to be tube fed if mortally ill and are no …

… ethical reasoning which influence health care professionals, and attempts to answer the
question ‘can artificial hydration and nutrition be legally or ethically … a certain obligation to accept …

… Tube feeding is sometimes initiated to overcome feeding difficulties. Recent studies have
questioned the appropriateness of tube feeding in … ’ attitudes regarding ethical obligations. …

… to offer PEG tube placement because they believe that they are legally/ethically obligated to
… need for supplemental enteral feeding of less than 8 wk, PEG tube feeding did not offer any …

… settings have tube feedings initiated, and it is now germane to study this highly controversial
treatment. Tube feeding in this study included nasogastric tubes, gastrostomy tubes, and …

… historically refers to the analysis of moral duties and obligations … Some reasons for refusing
tube feedings include an … In most cases, the use of a feeding tube is ethically justifiable or …

… No ethical obligations exists to provide a medical intervention that has no physiological effect.
Unless the PEG tube is … to PEG tube placement—including no PEG tube feeding—and the …

… The reasoning is: the patient has no fatal condition; he or she can be kept alive with the
simple use of tube feedings; therefore we are obligated to use a feeding tube to keep this person …