Cochrane Review: Enteral tube feeding for people with severe dementia

Zusammenfassung

# Enteral tube feeding for people with severe dementia. ## BACKGROUND The balance of benefits and harms associated with enteral tube feeding for people with severe dementia is not clear. An increasing number of guidelines highlight the lack of evidenced benefit and potential risks of enteral tube feeding. In some areas of the world, the use of enteral tube feeding is decreasing, and in other areas it is increasing. ## OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness and safety of enteral tube feeding 

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sters on 14 April 2021. ## SELECTION CRITERIA We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs), or controlled non-randomised studies. Our population of interest was adults of any age with a diagnosis of primary degenerative dementia of any cause, with severe cognitive and functional impairment, and...

ntially eligible studies against inclusion criteria. One review author extracted data, which were then checked independently by a second review author. We used the 'Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies of Interventions' (ROBINS-I) tool to assess the risk of bias in the included studies. Risk of co...

evidence related to each outcome for each study. ## MAIN RESULTS We found no eligible RCTs. We included fourteen controlled, non-randomised studies. All the included studies compared outcomes between groups of people who had been assigned to enteral tube feeding or oral feeding by prior decision o...

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