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# 010 Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed?, 2nd ed Medical College of Wisconsin (EPERC)
Background:  Tube feeding is frequently used in chronically ill and dying patients. The evidence for much of this use...
# 084 Swallow Studies, Tube Feeding and the Death Spiral, 2nd ed Medical College of Wisconsin (EPERC)
Introduction:   The reflex by families and doctors to provide nutrition for the patient who cannot swallow is...
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Clinical Issues Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
Abstract:  Artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) are common but controversial therapies at the end of life. Although...
Churning: The Association between Health Care Transitions and Feeding Tube Insertion for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Cognitive Impairment Journal of Palliative Medicine
Abstract:  There is a tenfold variation across U.S. states in the prevalence of feeding tube use among elderly nursing...
Ethical Issues in Hydration and Nutrition
This article, written by Neil Macdonald, is from the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care.  This...