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Use of Feeding Tubes in Nursing Home Residents With Severe Cognitive Impairment
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To the Editor: Many patients in the terminal phase of dementia have difficulty swallowing, with resulting weight loss and recurrent aspiration. Feeding tubes are often used for patients with advanced dementia in the hopes of delaying death or enhancing the quality of life, but the evidence supporting this practice is questionable.1-2 Although none of the 50 states prohibit the forgoing or withdrawal of a feeding tube, 15 states require a written advance directive to forgo insertion of a feeding tube.3 Aronheim et al,4 however, noted that variability in state laws did not fully explain the differences between states in use of feeding tubes. We sought other explanations for interstate variation in use of feeding tubes.
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Using the 1999 National Repository of the Minimum Data Set (MDS), we determined the rate of feeding tube use among 385 741 US nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment, as evidenced by a cognitive performance . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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