Rethinking tube feeding in palliative care: Impact on pneumonia, depression, and mortality in patients with dysphagia and life-limiting illness

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Introduction Tube feeding continues to be recommended for nutrition when a patient has dysphagia amid life-limiting illness. Tube feeding is frequently claimed to be a safer alternative to oral feeding. Oral feeding, including careful hand feeding, has emerge

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