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[Agency] NIH [Project Title] EFFECTIVENESS OF FEEDING TUBES AMONG PERSON WITH ADVANCED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT [Institution] BROWN UNIVERSITY [Amount] $341,059 [Summary] The proposed research has two overarching goals. First, we aim to use advanced methods to account for selection bias to provide a more definitive study of the potential benefits (survival, weight change, prevention and healing of pressure ulcers), risks (use of restraints, prescription of antipsychotics or benzodiazepines, and transitions to the ER and acute care hospital), and health care expenditures. A second goal is to understand the variation in hospital insertion rates of PEG feeding tubes. In this goal, we will examine potentially modifiable hospital characteristics, market factors, and state policies associated with this variation in hospitals' rate of PEG feeding tube insertion. [Completion/ Closing Date] 09/02/2010 [Link] link [Category] 
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