background: dysphagia as a common condition affecting many aspects of the patient’s life. the dysphagia handicap index (dhi) is a reliable self-reported questionnaire developed specifically to measure the impact of dysphagia on the patient’s quality of life. the aim of this study was to translate the questionnaire to persian and to measure its validity and reliability in patients with neurogeni...

Love et al (2013) claim new findings linking intervention for hip fracture with dysphagia. This commentary reflects on whether this represents novel data or simply reiterates previously recognised patterns, not necessarily specific to surgical hip-repair. Issues are addressed in the context of prevalence of dysphagia in community and care-home living older people; effects of operative procedure...

PURPOSE A number of disorders cause dysphagia, which is the perception of an obstruction during swallowing. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of dysphagia in primary care patients. METHODS Adults 18 years old and older were the subjects of an anonymous survey that was collected in the clinic waiting room before patients were seen by a physician. Twelve family medicine ...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to evaluate the correlation between dysphagia, detected by nursing staff in a brief interview and endoscopic findings in reflux esophagitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 8,031 Japanese subjects without medication for gastrointestinal disease were briefly asked about the presence of heartburn, dysphagia, odynophagia, and acid regurgitation by nursing staff bef...

The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine place-manner-voicing features and neuromuscular substrates of articulation and swallowing in a group of nursing home residents having concurrent dysarthria and dysphagia. Similar muscle groups function in speech articulation and swallowing, accounting for the high coincidence of dysarthria and dysphagia in neurological impairment. Subjects we...

explained by the fact that even severely dysphagic people do not always volunteer symptoms, as shown by the six subjects in our study who had never consulted a doctor for their daily discomfort during meals. The tendency for elderlv people to accept their problems as an inevitable manifestation of old age is probably the cause of this failure to seek help,' resulting in underreporting of sympto...

Dysphagia occurs frequently after a stroke. It is a major problem as patients are at risk of malnutrition and aspiration pneumonia. We aimed to identify the risk factors for and outcome of dysphagia over the first one month after an acute ischaemic stroke. Patients with acute first-ever ischaemic stroke admitted to the medical ward of Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) between July ...

BACKGROUND Pneumonia is an important complication of ischemic stroke and increases mortality 3-fold. Five guidelines recommend a dysphagia screen before oral intake. What constitutes an adequate dysphagia screen and which patients should receive it remain unclear. METHODS Fifteen acute care institutions prospectively collected data on all admitted patients with acute ischemic stroke. Sites we...

INTRODUCTION Dysphagia screening protocols have been recommended to identify patients at risk for aspiration. The American Heart Association convened an evidence review committee to systematically review evidence for the effectiveness of dysphagia screening protocols to reduce the risk of pneumonia, death, or dependency after stroke. METHODS The Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases were se...

D ysphagia screening is a recurring topic of discussion in stroke care and other acute and chronic conditions that can affect swallowing. Many would agree with Wolf and Rudd that " [s]wallowing screening is so obviously important that a trial is not needed, but the hard evidence that screening saves lives is absent. " 1 Paradoxically, the 2010 Joint Commission retired the dysphagia screening pe...