The one-year attributable cost of post-stroke dysphagia

Dysphagia

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 545-552

  Bonilha, Heather Shaw ^a,b   Simpson, Annie N ^a,b   Ellis, Charles ^a   Mauldin, Patrick ^b   Martin Harris, Bonnie ^a,b,c   Simpson, Kit ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Deglutition; Deglutition disorders; Discharge severity; Dysphagia; Length of stay; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ICD-9; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; AGE; APHASIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH; HOSPITAL COST; SOUTH CAROLINA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; STROKE; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84939415910     PISSN: 0179051X     EISSN: 14320460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00455-014-9543-8     Document Type: Article

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