Eating, drinking, and swallowing (EDS) are fundamental to the biomechanical model of the
body. They are the processes by which the body obtains fuel essential for existence but are …

Too often there is a tendency to focus on pharyngeal aspects of neurogenic dysphagia and
overlook pre-oral, oral, and esophageal dysfunction caused by neurological disorders. The …

Finucane and Bynum point out that in 1991 more than 75,000 percutaneous endoscopic
gastrostomy tubes were placed in US Medicare patients alone, many of them patients with …

Background patients with a permanently unsafe swallow may choose to eat and drink with
acknowledged risk (EDAR). Informed decision-making and advance care planning depend …

Aim In Japan, a 24‐item mealtime observation checklist (MOCL) was developed in 2015 to
support oral intake and prevent aspiration in older adults. The MOCL consists of …

“Screening” tests related to dysphagia should be differentiated from standard clinical
evaluations. As the term implies, a swallowing “screen” is performed, often at bedside, to …

The following questions are related to how you swallow food (ie, swallowing food from the
mouth until it reaches the stomach). All questions are related to important symptoms. Please …

Advancements in evaluation and treat-ment of dysphagia would seem to make treatment
decisions more clearcut. However, the decision process is complicated by factors brought to …

Editor–Green and colleagues (Clin Med December 2009 pp 515–8) are right to highlight the
problem of prescribed medications not being administered but appear to have omitted one …

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