2014-04-18
Letter to the Editor/Case report. Why should we not tube-feed patients with severe Alzheimer dementia?
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At our outpatient clinic and on the geriatric ward of our hospital we see a lot of patients with dementia. Some of these patients are suffering from advanced dementia, with decreased food and water intake. Several times a year, the question is raised whether or not we should feed these patients. Sometimes it is the family who wants their relatives to be artificially fed, in other cases the general practitioner or attending physician in a nursing home refers patients to our hospital to start artificial feeding by inserting a feeding tube. In this letter, we would like to explain why it is not ethical to tubefeed patients suffering from advanced dementia. [..]
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| doi.org/10.1016/j.bpg.2014.02.009, hdl.handle.net/1765/53826 | |
| Best Practice and Research in Clinical Gastroenterology | |
| Organisation | Department of Internal Medicine |
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van Bruchem-Visser, R., Oudshoorn, C., & Mattace Raso, F. (2014). Letter to the Editor/Case report. Why should we not tube-feed patients with severe Alzheimer dementia?. Best Practice and Research in Clinical Gastroenterology. doi:10.1016/j.bpg.2014.02.009 |
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