Objective To determine the relative importance of factors influencing physicians to use tube
feedings in patients lacking decision‐making capacity. Design Survey. Setting and …

OBJECTIVES: Many factors affect the decision to institute long‐term tube‐feeding in older
persons. The objectives of this cross‐national survey are to examine the tube‐feeding …

Objective: To determine attitudes of physicians toward the limitation of tube feeding in
chronically ill nursing home patients and the influences of patient preferences and other …

Background: Because tube-feeding decisions are sometimes difficult, we examined
physician, institutional, and patient factors associated with these decisions. Methods …

OBJECTIVES: To examine family member's perceptions of decision‐making and outcomes
of feeding tubes. DESIGN: Mortality follow‐back survey. Sample weights were used to …

When eating difficulties arise, feeding tubes are not recommended for older adults with
advanced dementia. Careful hand feeding should be offered because hand feeding has …

Objective: To determine choices about enteral tube feeding and factors associated with
deciding to accept or forego this intervention in a group of ambulatory non‐demented older …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the development and evaluation of a decision aid for long‐term
tube feeding in cognitively impaired older people. DESIGN: Before‐and‐after study …

Of all the reasons that justify a decision to withhold or withdraw a feeding tube, the most
basic is that it is not needed in order to nourish the patient adequately and safely. The …

BACKGROUND: The decision to start long-term tube-feeding in elderly people is complex.
The process by which such decisions are made is not well understood. The authors …