Background and Purpose: Dysphagia is a common complication of stroke that can lead to increased aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition, prolonged hospital stay, and can necessitate the placement of a ...

Background: Prior literature has reported patterns of racial differences in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement for patients with post-stroke dysphagia. Reasons for this disproportion ...

The decision to place a gastrostomy tube is a difficult one for many families. Discussions with parents can begin immediately after birth if the indication for a gastrostomy tube is clear.

Investors turn to another ratio known as the price/earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio to address this limitation. The PEG ratio measures the relationship between the price/earnings ratio and earnings ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 2 Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Jinhua Hospital, Zhejiang ...

The head of an Ontario agency responsible for delivering and coordinating medical supplies needed for home and palliative care has been fired in the wake of critical shortages, Global News can ...

One of the most useful tools for this is the PEG ratio. Unlike simpler metrics, which only show a company’s current value, the PEG ratio also takes into account how much a company is expected to ...

In a series of recent articles, we pointed out that in 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) abandoned the flexible exchange rate regime that had been in place for three decades and replaced it with a ...

Palliative care and hospice care are both intended for those ... In addition, other treatments or procedures considered life-prolonging, like a nasogastric or "feeding" tube, might not be part of a ...

Palliative care isn’t always a part of just end-of-life care. It can be used at any point if you have incurable cancer to improve your quality of life. Some cancer treatments are curative, while ...