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 ...
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 ...
The performance of a full diagnostic upper endoscopy is imperative before PEG tube placement. Wolfsen and colleagues [10] found that 36% of patients scheduled for PEG tube placement had endoscopic ...