Dysphagia evaluation and care in the hospital setting: The need for protocolization

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 895-898

  Altman, Kenneth W ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process management; Clinical algorithm; Critical pathway; Dysphagia; Health care value; Interdisciplinary; Outcomes; Protocol; Screening

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LARYNX; NOTE; REIMBURSEMENT; SCREENING; SWALLOWING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856072010     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599811415803     Document Type: Note

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