ArticleDysphagia2014
Oral care may reduce pneumonia in the tube-fed elderly: a preliminary study.
Article in Dysphagia, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05656950 (Assessment of Oral Health Status of Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care Units), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Assessment of Oral Health Status of Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care Units
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effective infection prevention and control measures in long-term care facilities in non-outbreak and outbreak settings: a systematic literature review.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of an oral care bundle on salivary pH, dry mouth and ventilator-associated pneumonia in intubated patients: a randomized controlled trial.BMC oral health · 2026Trial
- The effects of promoting oral intake using the Kuchi-kara Taberu index, a comprehensive feeding assistant tool, in older pneumonia patients: a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2020Trial
- Maturation of the MOUTh Intervention: From Reducing Threat to Relationship-Centered Care.Journal of gerontological nursing · 2016Trial
- A Narrative Review of Oral Hygiene and Pulmonary Health Amid Dysphagia: Implications for Feeding Route, Nutrition, and Quality of Life.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Risk Factors Associated to Aspiration Pneumonia in Adults and Elderly Patients: A Scoping Review.Dysphagia · 2026Article
- Improvement in oral hygiene among bedridden patients following domiciliary dental care: A retrospective study.Journal of dental sciences · 2026Article
- [Improvement of oral health of older people in hospitals: a scoping review].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2025Article
- Clinical analysis of risk factors for diarrhea associated with enteral nutrition in post-craniocerebral surgery patients.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and confidence of caregivers and administrators towards the oral health of nursing home residents in San Antonio, Texas.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Superior bone regenerative properties of carbonate apatite with locational bone-active factors through an inorganic process.Regenerative therapy · 2024Article
- Impaired oral health: a required companion of bacterial aspiration pneumonia.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Review
- Assessment of Oral Health in Long-Term Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Patients: Significant Aspects of Nursing Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Sepsis in Patients With Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke-Clinical Characteristics and Outcome.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- The effectiveness of a desensitization technique for mitigating oral and facial tactile hypersensitivity in institutionalized older persons: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of dental sciences · 2021Article
- The effect of oral care intervention on pneumonia hospitalization, Staphylococcus aureus distribution, and salivary bacterial concentration in Taiwan nursing home residents: a pilot study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Poor oral health and mortality in geriatric patients admitted to an acute hospital: an observational study.BMC geriatrics · 2020Observational
- Influence of oral care on fractional exhaled nitric oxide.Asia Pacific allergy · 2018Article
- The salivary microbiome is consistent between subjects and resistant to impacts of short-term hospitalization.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Oral Care and Prevention of Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients With Psychiatric Disorders in Japan.Japanese clinical medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
Pneumonia is one of the most important diseases in terms of mortality in the elderly. In particular, bedridden patients who are forbidden oral ingestion during enteral nutrition may have a poor outcome resulting from a respiratory infection. Oral hygiene can play a positive role in preventing aspiration pneumonia in the elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of oral hygiene for bedridden and tube-fed patients at an increased risk of pneumonia. This retrospective study was conducted from July 2011 to June 2013 on a long-term-care hospital unit. The oral care protocol (OCP) intervention commenced in July 2012, during the study period. The subjects of this study were 63 elderly patients with a mean age of 81.7 years. Thirty-one patients were enrolled in the OCP intervention group, and the mean observation length was 130.4 days; the mean observation length for the 32 patients in the control group was 128.4 days. The incidence of pneumonia and the numbers of days with a recorded fever, antibiotics administration, blood tests, and radiological examinations were reduced from 1.20 to 0.45, 24.57 to 17.48, 25.52 to 10.12, 10.91 to 6.54, and 6.33 to 3.09 %, respectively. These reductions were significantly less in the OCP intervention group. In conclusion, the results of the present study suggest that daily oral care for tube-fed patients who do not receive nutrition by mouth reduced the incidence of pneumonia. In addition to patients consuming food by mouth, all tube-fed patients require dedicated oral care to maintain healthy oral conditions.
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