Clinical selection criteria can predict futile intervention in patients referred for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion.
Darcy Q HoltJ F McDonaldM L MurrayC HairD A DevonshireB J StraussG T MoorePublished in: Internal medicine journal (2016)
The application of selection criteria by trained assessors improves patient selection for PEG insertion and predicts mortality at early and later time points, by identifying patients unlikely to benefit from PEG. The group of patients who received a gastrostomy despite an adverse assessment had no mortality benefit - in these patients, the procedure may have been futile.