Fewer U.S. nursing home patients with dementia are getting feeding tubes as mounting evidence suggests it may not help them live longer or make them more comfortable, new research suggests.

Abstract Wilson N, Best C (2011) Administration of medicines via an enteral feeding tube. Nursing Times; 107: 41, early online publication. In 2007, the National Patient Safety Agency raised concerns ...

A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

A small plastic tube is all that stands between survival and starvation. The benefits of a feeding tube — helping elders who have forgotten how to eat — seem so obvious that it is used on one-third of ...

In a study appearing in the August 16 issue of JAMA, Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., of Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined feeding ...

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Feeding tubes of six mentally impaired patients at a Philadelphia nursing home were cut, acts police are calling a heinous crime. Authorities said the feeding tubes had ...

The study comes "amid growing empirical data and expert opinion" that the use of feeding tubes has no health benefit and "may be associated with increased risks and discomfort," Mitchell said. Sandra ...