… In exploring the factors relevant to decisions about tube feedings, we limited our investigation
to living wills, family's wishes, the Cruzan decision, and patient characteristics. Other …

… that physicians play an important role in feeding tube decision-… that a physician was strongly
in favor of a feeding tube, with … pressured by the physician to insert a feeding tube. In 2000, …

… and physicians to … tube feedings than would physicians. We also studied the association
of several clinical characteristics with nurses' and physicians' willingness to use tube feedings…

… less likely to begin tube feeding in the case simulations. Description of these individual
decision strategies and elucidation of the important physician characteristics can help identify the …

… In the section on communication, the following questions were asked: whether the SDM
spoke with a physician about the tube-feeding decision and whether they felt they had …

… For physicians who care for the elderly, tube feeding decisions are often difficult. In those …
, the decisions generally are not troubling because the use of tube feeding is expected to be …

… amount of confusion among physicians about medical–ethical issues associated with ANH.
For example, it appears that many physicians agree that tube feeding can be withdrawn from …

… This study attempts to understand more about physician decisions to recommend PEG tube
… self-reported physician practice and the literature regarding tube feeding in patients with …

… and family medicine physicians underscore the discrepancy between physician response,
clinical practice, and the reported literature for decisions related to use of tube feeding. In …

… Physicians were more opposed to tube feeding in … , physician decisions regarding tube
feeding are strongly influenced by prognosis. State legislation that categorizes tube feedings …