Patients with advanced dementia frequently develop eating difficulties and weight loss.
Enteral feeding tubes are often used in this situation, yet benefits and risks of this therapy …

Injuries associated with hospitalization are more common in older (≥ 65 years) than in
younger patients (< 65 years), and they may be more severe and more often preventable …

Executive Summary The Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of
Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings 2007 updates and expands the 1996 Guideline for …

Background: Aspiration pneumonia is common among frail elderly persons with dysphagia.
Although interventions to prevent aspiration are routinely used in these patients, little is …

Background Little is known about the risk factors, outcome, and impact of pneumonia and
other lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in residents of long-term care facilities …

Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients in long-term care
facilities; the median reported incidence is 1 per 1,000 patient-days. Risk factors include …

OBJECTIVE. This study evaluated the clinical significance of pharyngeal retention to predict
aspiration in patients with dysphagia. MATERIALS AND METHODS. At videofluoroscopy …

Sometimes it is possible to differentiate whether the aspirate is gastric or pharyngeal. The
kind of bacterial contamination is, however, more difficult to establish. Oral or dental disease …

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nursing- and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia (NHCAP) [Complete
translation] Page 1 Guideline Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nursing- and Healthcareassociated …

Evidence is building that dental plaque and inflammatory periodontal disease may
contribute to the initiation and/or progression of certain lung diseases. Pneumonia is an …