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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) provides enteral feeding to patients whose ability to swallow is impaired by obstruction, a neurologic disorder, or another cause. Investigators used the EuroQol-5D questionnaire to assess the health-related quality of life (QOL) of 100 patients who underwent PEG (55 endoscopic, 45 radiologic) at any of five hospitals in England. QOL was assessed before the PEG date and 3 months later in the patients themselves, their caregivers, and 200 controls from the general population. Six patients died before the 3-month assessment.
Mean health-related QOL index scores barely changed from the pre-PEG to the 3-month assessment in the patients (0.70 and 0.71, respectively) and caregivers (0.95 at both junctures)…