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AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine 13 General External links
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy 16954 1 oral feeding preferred for advanced dementia
Assisted feeding 223 1 Assisted feeding as an alternative to tube feeding
Feeding tube 21040 1 oral feeding preferred for advanced dementia
Insulin therapy 10130 2 Article no longer exists
Insulin 115248 2 SSI and managing long-term diabetes
Bacteriuria 3521 3 over-use of antibiotic therapy sentence.
Dementia 85048 4 Anti-psychotics, tube-feedings.
Antipsychotic 44440 4 prescribing for dementia.
Urinary tract infection 92118 4 urine cultures in patients with dementia
Hypolipidemic agent 3358 5 Hypercholesterolemia in persons older than 70 years
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AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (February 2014), "Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question", Choosing Wisely: an initiative of the ABIM Foundation, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, retrieved 20 April 2015, which cites

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    • Hanson, Laura C.; Ersek, Mary; Gilliam, Robin; Carey, Timothy S. (2011). "Oral Feeding Options for People with Dementia: A Systematic Review". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 59 (3): 463–472. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03320.x. ISSN 0002-8614.
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