Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada

Background: Decision making concerning patients with advanced dementia is complicated. The indication of a gastrostomy is among these hard decisions, especially considering that there is no consensus about its real benefit. Aim: To explore the criteria used by Chilean physicians to indicate a gastro...

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Autor principal:	Portales V,María Bernardita
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2015
Materias:	Bioethics Dementia Gastrostomy
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720150011000052016-01-19Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzadaPortales V,María Bernardita Bioethics Dementia Gastrostomy Background: Decision making concerning patients with advanced dementia is complicated. The indication of a gastrostomy is among these hard decisions, especially considering that there is no consensus about its real benefit. Aim: To explore the criteria used by Chilean physicians to indicate a gastrostomy in patients with advanced dementia. Material and Methods: A questionnaire about the decision making to indicate a gastrostomy was delivered to 72 physicians working in public and private hospitals. Results: The survey was answered by 43 physicians. Fifty one percent had indicated a gastrostomy to patients with advanced dementia in the last year, 79% believed that gastrostomy reduces the risk of aspiration pneumonia, 50% thought that gastrostomy helps in bed sore healing and 74% believed that gastrostomy improves survival. Conclusions: The majority of physicians who answered the survey think that gastrostomy will improve the health status of patients with advanced dementia.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.143 n.11 20152015-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872015001100005es10.4067/S0034-98872015001100005
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description	Background: Decision making concerning patients with advanced dementia is complicated. The indication of a gastrostomy is among these hard decisions, especially considering that there is no consensus about its real benefit. Aim: To explore the criteria used by Chilean physicians to indicate a gastrostomy in patients with advanced dementia. Material and Methods: A questionnaire about the decision making to indicate a gastrostomy was delivered to 72 physicians working in public and private hospitals. Results: The survey was answered by 43 physicians. Fifty one percent had indicated a gastrostomy to patients with advanced dementia in the last year, 79% believed that gastrostomy reduces the risk of aspiration pneumonia, 50% thought that gastrostomy helps in bed sore healing and 74% believed that gastrostomy improves survival. Conclusions: The majority of physicians who answered the survey think that gastrostomy will improve the health status of patients with advanced dementia.
author	Portales V,María Bernardita
author_facet	Portales V,María Bernardita
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title	Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada
title_short	Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada
title_full	Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada
title_fullStr	Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada
title_full_unstemmed	Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada
title_sort	criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2015
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Criterios de médicos tratantes para indicar instalación de gastrostomía en pacientes con demencia avanzada

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