… Our results confirm their finding that the highest costs among tube-fed patients are associated
with PEG placement and hospitalizations for major tube-feeding complications. The rates …

… safety of postpyloric feeding vs gastric feeding were included … Postpyloric tube feeding could
deliver higher proportions of … ill patients with postpyloric tube feeding in terms of mortality (…

… The extra nursing time and occasional need for radiography when replacing tubes all add
to the cost of nasogastric tube feeding. Although surgical gastrostomy is an alternative to …

… , presumably secondary to cessation of tube feedings. The tube feedings were held in this
… time-efficient manner and decrease the overall cost of tube placement and nutrition delivery. …

… Therefore, the aim of this study was to undertake a cost-utility analysis to establish the cost
per quality adjusted life years (‘cost/… Comparison with other studies involving long-term tube …

… costs of tube feeding by comparing a small number of nursing home (NH) residents with
advanced dementia, for whom either tube feeding or hand feeding … costs of $2224 in comparison …

… usually contain a density of 1 kcal/ml, the prescriptions for homemade and blended preparations
were standardized to 2000 kcal and 50 g of proteins to facilitate comparison of cost and …

… for children with severe CP who were immobile and tube fed. This does not settle the main
… Placing a tube in an 18-year-old does not allow comparison with the de rigeur placement in …

… for comparison, we also calculated the theoretical costs of … Figure 4 shows the costs
associated with the procedures and … It also contains a comparison with the theoretical costs that …

… Age at tube feeding initiation and tube feeding durations varied substantially with underlying
disease (Table 2, Table 3). The longest total durations were observed in patients with …