Long-Term Survival of Patients Receiving Artificial Nutrition in Japanese Psychiatric Hospitals

Long-Term Survival of Patients Receiving Artificial Nutrition in Japanese Psychiatric Hospitals

Background/Aims: Most patients with dementia suffer from dysphagia in the terminal stage of the disease. In Japan, most elderly patients with dysphagia receive either tube feeding or total parenteral nutrition. Methods: In this study, we investigated the factors determining longer survival with arti...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keiichi Abe, Ryuko Yamashita, Keiko Kondo, Keiko Takayama, Osamu Yokota, Yoshiki Sato, Mitsumasa Kawai, Hideki Ishizu, Tadao Nakashima, Hideki Hayashi, Kenji Nakata, Hiroyuki Asaba, Koichi Kadota, Kazuyoshi Tanaka, Yumi Morisada, Etsuko Oshima, Seishi Terada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2016-10-01
Series:Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Subjects:
Dementia
Long-term care
Long-term survival
Nasogastric tube
Nutrition
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Schizophrenia
Artificial nutrition
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/448242

Internet

http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/448242

Similar Items