Reliability and validity of a tool to measure the severity of dysphagia: The food intake LEVEL scale

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-206

  Kunieda, Kenjiro ^a,b   Ohno, Tomohisa ^c   Fujishima, Ichiro ^a   Hojo, Kyoko ^a   Morita, Tatsuya ^c  

^a Department of Rehabilitation Medicine   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; food intake; measurement tool; validation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE LEVEL SCALE; FUNCTIONAL ORAL INTAKE SCALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; SWALLOWING; VALIDITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84882456632     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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