# Are there any medical guidelines for using feeding tubes on depressed patients?

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**Created:** [September 3, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-medical-guidelines-for-using-feeding-tubes-on-depressed-patients/950059 "2021-09-03T18:27:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-medical-guidelines-for-using-feeding-tubes-on-depressed-patients/950059/21 "2021-09-05T22:32:14Z")

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Was this in a freestanding hospice facility, or for people in hospice, period, whether at home, in the hospital, a nursing home, etc.?

IV access is, of course, another story

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-medical-guidelines-for-using-feeding-tubes-on-depressed-patients/950059/22 "2021-09-05T23:04:26Z")

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Nursing home. I was told the hospice program has its own doctors and nurses that visit patients.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-medical-guidelines-for-using-feeding-tubes-on-depressed-patients/950059/23 "2021-09-06T01:03:50Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Was this in a freestanding hospice facility, or for people in hospice, period, whether at home, in the hospital, a nursing home, etc.?
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> IV access is, of course, another story

I worked in a freestanding, inpatient hospice. Most of the patients in the program were at home, they were only admitted for symptom control or rapid decline.

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