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Understanding the benefits and burdens of tube feedings

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Bernard Lo M.D.

  2. Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, USA

    Laurie Dornbrand M.D.

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Reprinted with permission of the publisher fromArchives of Internal Medicine 149:1925–1926, 1989

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Lo, B., Dornbrand, L. Understanding the benefits and burdens of tube feedings. Dysphagia 7, 71–72 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02493436

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