Long-term outcome after stroke: Does dysphagia matter?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-94

  Smithard, David G ^a   Smeeton, N C ^b   Wolfe, C D A ^b  

^a WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Dysphagia; Elderly; Outcome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SURVIVAL; SWALLOWING; AGING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33947574819     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl149     Document Type: Article

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