A Feasibility Study of the Sensitivity of Emergency Physician Dysphagia Screening in Acute Stroke Patients

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Turner Lawrence, Danielle E ^a   Peebles, Meredith ^b   Price, Marlow F ^b   Singh, Sam J ^b   Asimos, Andrew W ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOICE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; STROKE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 68649111613     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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