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Intensive Behavioral Treatment for Severe Feeding Problems: A Cost-effective Alternative to Tube Feeding?

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Forty-six children with severe feeding problems received intensive behavioral therapy in a day treatment program. All of the children were dependent on supplemental tube feedings. The outcomes of the day treatment program were reported at discharge, 12, and 24 month follow-up. The program was found to be cost-effective when compared to the cost of long-term supplemental feeding.

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  1. Feeding Program, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Box 850 HP19, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    Keith E. Williams, Katherine Riegel, Bridget Gibbons & Douglas G. Field

  2. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

    Keith E. Williams & Douglas G. Field

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Williams, K.E., Riegel, K., Gibbons, B. et al. Intensive Behavioral Treatment for Severe Feeding Problems: A Cost-effective Alternative to Tube Feeding?. J Dev Phys Disabil 19, 227–235 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-007-9051-y

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