Catholic Teaching about Tube Feeding

Chisholm Health Ethics Bulletin 16 (2):8 (2010)
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McGovern, Kevin After exploring the sources of Catholic teaching about tube feeding, this article summarises that teaching in four points. Because tube feeding usually offers little if any benefit in advanced dementia, as a general rule a feeding tube is not inserted into these patients

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