Tube Feeding Old People
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Editorial : Tube Feeding Old People
The process of administering nutritious sustenance through a tube into the gut while avoiding the mouth and swallowing mechanisms is a nice example of collaboration or conflict between health care professionals arising from their medical, ethical and legal concerns. Two recent articles in the Journal' have drawn attention to these concerns and it is timely to analyse them further. When ethical ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0714-9808,1710-1107
DOI: 10.1017/s0714980800013672