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Incidence of Tube Feeding in 7174 Newly Admitted Nursing Home Residents With and Without Dementias
(2015)
Background:
Tube feeding is a common form of long-term nutritional support, especially for nursing home residents, of whom many have dementia.
Objective:
Estimating the incidence of feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with and without dementia.
Methods:
Using claims data, we studied a cohort of newly admitted nursing home residents aged 65 years and older between 2004 and 2009. Analyses were stratified by dementia. We estimated incidence rates and performed multivariate Cox regression analyses.
Results:
The study cohort included 7174 nursing home residents. Over a mean follow-up of 1.3 years, 273 people received a feeding tube. The incidence per 1000 person-years was 28.4, with higher estimates for patients with dementia. When adjusting for age, sex, and level of care as a time-dependent covariate, influence of dementia decreased to a nonsignificant hazard ratio.
Conclusion:
It seems that not dementia itself but the overall clinical condition might be a predictor of tube feeding placement.
Der Nutzen langfristig angelegter Magensonden (PEG-Sonden) für Menschen mit Demenz ist bisher nicht belegt (Sampson et al. 2009). Themenspezifische Entscheidungshilfen für Angehörige liegen vor. Wenig ist bekannt über die Kontextbedingungen, unter denen Stellvertreterpersonen in den Entscheidungsprozess eintreten, institutionsinterne Einflussfaktoren sowie handlungsrelevante Strategien von Stellvertreterpersonen und Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe. Die Dissertation (Mazzola 2015) liefert ein vertieftes Verständnis über das Zustandekommen von Präferenz-sensitiven Entscheidungen bei Menschen mit Demenz in der stationären Langzeitpflege.