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The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes

Author(s) -

Ruth Palan Lopez

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.467

Subject(s) - cognitive impairment , organizational culture , ethnography , nursing , dementia , nursing homes , cognition , feeding tube , intervention (counseling) , population , qualitative research , medicine , psychology , gerontology , surgery , sociology , management , environmental health , psychiatry , disease , pathology , social science , anthropology , economics

Nationwide, many nursing home (NH) residents with advanced cognitive impairment are tube fed, despite no demonstrable benefits of this intervention in this population. Studies suggest that organizational features of NHs are associated with this practice, but underlying reasons for these associations are poorly understood.

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