Feasibility of swallowing interventions for tracheostomized individuals with severely disordered consciousness following traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 389-399

  O'Neil Pirozzi, Therese M ^a,b   Momose, K Jack ^b   Mello, Jennifer ^a,b   Lepak, Paige ^b   McCabe, Margaret ^b   Connors, Jennifer J ^b   Lisiecki, Deborah J ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BARIUM MEAL; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRINKING; EXTUBATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHABILITATION CENTER; SWALLOWING; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 0038417978     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269905031000070251     Document Type: Article

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