Feeding Tube Use Varies (IMAGE)

Brown University

Feeding Tube Use Varies

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A new study finds that the likelihood of an elderly patient with advanced dementia receiving a gastric feeding tube varies with the specialties of their attending physicians at the hospital.

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Michael Cohea/Brown University

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