Objective: Where swallowing difficulties are chronic or progressive, or a patient is palliative,
tube feeding is often not deemed appropriate. Instead, patients continue to eat and drink …

Background: Even though no evidence suggests tube feeding is beneficial for individuals
with advanced dementia, many are still tube fed. Objective: To assess perceptions of …

Abstract 'Risk feeding'policies, for when people continue to eat and drink despite a
perceived risk of choking or aspiration have become common in recent years. We argue that …

Feeding with acknowledged risk is appropriate for patients unsuitable for tube feeding who
have an unsafe swallow that is unlikely to improve. However, without excellent …

Background Inadequate dietary intake is a common problem amongst older acute-care
patients and has been identified as an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality. This …

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

The demand for acute medical services for older people has risen in recent years and
increasing numbers of older people are having enteral feeding tubes placed to ensure they …

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

The Royal College of Physicians has recently published guidance on supporting people
with eating and drinking difficulties. Although much of the advice in the guidance is sensible …

Introduction Using co‐design processes, we aimed to develop an evidence‐based decision
guide for family carers and hospital professionals to support decision‐making about eating …