title: Ensuring compliance in enteral feeding.
abstract: Enteral feeding provides a lifeline for some patients, but is not without its own hazards and risks. The complications include blocking of tubes and gastrointestinal intolerance, and may inhibit and delay the patient's recovery from illness. This article discusses the difficulties, and offers some potential solutions to them.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance