TY - JOUR
T1 - Survival period after tube feeding in bedridden older patients
AU - Kosaka, Youichi
AU - Nakagawa-Satoh, Takuma
AU - Ohrui, Takashi
AU - Fujii, Masahiko
AU - Arai, Hiroyuki
AU - Sasaki, Hidetada
PY - 2012/4/1
Y1 - 2012/4/1
N2 - Aim: We prospectively studied survival periods after tube feeding. Methods: Participants were 163 bedridden older patients suffering from dysphagia. Results: A wide range of survival periods after tube feeding were observed within half a year without tube feeding after being bedridden. After this initial period, survival periods after tube feeding were limited to approximately half a year. Survival periods after tube feeding were positively proportional to the length of time patients were free from pneumonia after tube feeding. After tube feeding, patients died from pneumonia within half a year, and the frequency of pneumonia was 3.1±2.7 times (mean±SD) before death. Conclusion: Survival periods after tube feeding for less than 1year were primarily determined by being bedridden for more than half a year without tube feeding and once pneumonia occurred; patients who were tube fed did not survive for more than half a year.
AB - Aim: We prospectively studied survival periods after tube feeding. Methods: Participants were 163 bedridden older patients suffering from dysphagia. Results: A wide range of survival periods after tube feeding were observed within half a year without tube feeding after being bedridden. After this initial period, survival periods after tube feeding were limited to approximately half a year. Survival periods after tube feeding were positively proportional to the length of time patients were free from pneumonia after tube feeding. After tube feeding, patients died from pneumonia within half a year, and the frequency of pneumonia was 3.1±2.7 times (mean±SD) before death. Conclusion: Survival periods after tube feeding for less than 1year were primarily determined by being bedridden for more than half a year without tube feeding and once pneumonia occurred; patients who were tube fed did not survive for more than half a year.
KW - Bedridden
KW - Dysphagia
KW - Frail older patients
KW - Terminal medicine
KW - Tube feeding
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2011.00805.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2011.00805.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22239729
AN - SCOPUS:84859002162
VL - 12
SP - 317
EP - 321
JO - Geriatrics and Gerontology International
JF - Geriatrics and Gerontology International
SN - 1447-0594
IS - 2
ER -