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Weekly JAMA Feature for February 9
PLACING FEEDING TUBES IN HOSPITALIZED NURSING HOME RESIDENTS WITH ADVANCED DEMENTIA VARIES WIDELY
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Radio script (TRT :59)
February 9, 2010
VO: EATING, SWALLOWING AND RECURRING INFECTIONS ARE JUST SOME PROBLEMS FACING NURSING HOME RESIDENTS WITH END STAGE DEMENTIA, OFTEN REQUIRING HOSPITALIZATION. A NEW STUDY SHOWS MANY OF THESE PATIENTS ARE AT AN INCREASED RISK FOR A FEEDING TUBE INSERTION DURING THEIR STAY.
“Hospitals more likely to insert a feeding tube had a practice style of aggressive care at the end of life, they were larger hospitals and more likely to be for-profit hospitals.”
VO: DR. JOAN TENO FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY LED RESEARCH LOOKING AT 163,022 NURSING HOME PATIENTS, WITH ADVANCED DEMENTIA, AT 2,797 ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS FROM 2000 TO 2007. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“For about one fourth of the hospitals, people admitted to the hospital with severe dementia had a one in ten chance of having a feeding tube insertion. For some hospitals that risk was one in three, yet for 12 percent of the hospitals they did not insert any feeding tubes.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT :59)
February 9, 2010
VO: EATING, SWALLOWING AND RECURRING INFECTIONS ARE JUST SOME PROBLEMS FACING NURSING HOME RESIDENTS WITH END STAGE DEMENTIA, OFTEN REQUIRING HOSPITALIZATION. A NEW STUDY SHOWS MANY OF THESE PATIENTS ARE AT AN INCREASED RISK FOR A FEEDING TUBE INSERTION DURING THEIR STAY.
“Hospitals more likely to insert a feeding tube had a practice style of aggressive care at the end of life, they were larger hospitals and more likely to be for-profit hospitals.”
VO: DR. JOAN TENO FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY LED RESEARCH LOOKING AT 163,022 NURSING HOME PATIENTS, WITH ADVANCED DEMENTIA, AT 2,797 ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS FROM 2000 TO 2007. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“For about one fourth of the hospitals, people admitted to the hospital with severe dementia had a one in ten chance of having a feeding tube insertion. For some hospitals that risk was one in three, yet for 12 percent of the hospitals they did not insert any feeding tubes.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.