Background Health-related quality of life (QoL) and subjective health have become popular
constructs for the evaluation of both efficacy and efficiency of diagnostic and therapeutic …

Objectives To describe the experience and sources of comfort and discomfort in
tracheostomy patients, when they communicate with nurses in the Intensive Care Unit …

A tracheostomy tube decreases the ability of the patient to communicate effectively. The
ability to speak provides an important improvement in the quality of life for a patient with a …

Introduction Total laryngectomy has important psychophysical and social consequences for
patients' quality of life because of the functional changes resulting from the removal of the …

Introduction The quality of care for tracheostomy and mechanically ventilated patients in
intensive care units (ICUs) has improved considerably. However, the communication barrier …

Background. Voice‐related quality of life (V‐RQOL) has never been studied in Indian
patients. This study was planned to validate and assess V‐RQOL in patients using …

(1) Introduction: Laryngeal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer affecting the
upper aerodigestive tract. Despite ensuring good oncological outcome in many …

For this study, we determined the quality of life (QOL) in individuals who had undergone total
laryngectomy (TL) and who used tracheoesophageal (TE) speech as their pri mary method …

This study gives an overview of publications on factors that are associated with the outcome
of voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy. A systematic literature review was conducted. Fifty …

This survey assessed how early speech rehabilitation influences the emotional state and
psychological adjustment of 43 male laryngectomy patients, at three different chronological …