Pill swallowing by adults with dysphagia

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 970-975

  Carnaby Mann, Giselle ^a   Crary, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMOTIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; APNEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG CLEARANCE; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIQUID; MALE; MONITORING; NASOPHARYNX; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PILL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SAFETY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SWALLOWING; TABLET; TABLET DISINTEGRATION TIME; TABLET FORMULATION; TABLET PROPERTY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; APNEA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TABLETS;

EID: 28144435731     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.131.11.970     Document Type: Article

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