A Program for Weaning Children from Enteral Feeding in a General Pediatric Unit: How, for Whom, and with What Results?

[摘要] ObjectiveTo describe a series of children who were hospitalized for a tube-weaning program in the general pediatric ward of a pediatric tertiary university hospital: describe our method, to determine the success rate of our inpatient pediatric tube weaning program, and search for relevant factors linked to its success or failure.

[学科分类] 儿科学

[关键词] enteral feeding;tube dependency;weaning;gastrostomy;eating disorders;feeding difficulties