Oropharyngeal dysphagia: Screening and assessment

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 989-1008

  Speyer, Renée ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment; Diagnostic performance; Methodology; Oropharyngeal dysphagia; Quality of life; Reliability; Screening

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; MENTAL HEALTH; OROPHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGIA; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SWALLOWING; VALIDITY; VISCOSITY; WELLBEING;

ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; OROPHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING;

DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, ORAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MOUTH DISEASES; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84888048834     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: 15578259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2013.08.004     Document Type: Review

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