Clinical Trial: Screening the Patient for Oral Intake: Applicability of the Yale Swallow Protocol in Patients Across Disease Categories
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Oral Intake
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Screening the Patient for Oral Intake: Applicability of the Yale Swallow Protocol in Patients Across Disease Categories
Brief Summary:
With 98 swallow screening tools already developed, dysphagia remains under-screened and undiagnosed.Even for patients at high risk of oropharyngeal dysphagia (i.e., hospitalized aged, post-stroke, Parkinson's disease, head and neck cancer, or those had ? 48 hours of endotracheal intubation), swallow screening is not systematically performed.Nurses, as front-line providers, are bombarded with patients' dysphagia.We witnessed patients' subsequent poor outcomes, including delayed oral intake,…
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