RT Journal
A1 Christmas C, Finucane TE
T1 Tube feeding and pressure ulcers: Comment on “feeding tubes and the prevention or healing of pressure ulcers”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD May 14
VO 172
IS 9
SP 701
OP 703
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1207
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1207
AB 
“Malnutrition” is frequently cited when patients with pressure sores do poorly, and “adequate” nutrient intake (or input) is part of most guidelines on pressure sore management. This may be misleading, however. Although not conclusive, available evidence consistently suggests that nutrition support—parenterally, with oral supplements, or via enteral tube feeding—does not improve pressure sore outcomes. The Cochrane review of enteral tube feeding in older people with dementia concluded that data were limited and that “there was no evidence of benefit in terms of nutritional status or the prevalence of pressure ulcers.”1