Dysphagia impacts on the health and quality of life of individuals and contributes to the cost
of health care. This paper summarises current literature regarding the nature, assessment …

Purpose: Research shows that dysphagia impacts quality of life negatively, but the nature of
these impacts is not well understood. This review article aims to examine the impacts of …

Dysphagia: difficulty eating because of swallowing problems is a symptom that affects 15%
of hospital inpatients, older people, people with neurological disease, cancers of the head …

Purpose Patients admitted to critical care (CC) are at risk of impaired swallowing and
communication function. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) play an important role in this …

International studies examining dysphagia management have identified that a degree of
practice variability exists globally, with multiple factors within the local health service context …

The aim of this work was to translate the 44-item SWAL-QoL into Dutch (SWAL-QoL-NL) and
compare the validity of this questionnaire against Euroqol in a Dutch population with …

Background: The project originated from a desire to produce a comprehensive inter-
professional dysphagia competence framework and make available a common language to …

Purpose To identify the qualifications, professional roles and service practices of nurses,
occupational therapists (OTs) and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the management …

This is the first study to examine dysphagia assessment practices of UK/Ireland speech and
language therapists. The aims were to (1) examine practice patterns across clinicians,(2) …

This article reports on the use of a new tool from the Australian Therapy Outcome Measures
(AusTOMs) set—the Swallowing scale. The scale is one of six, designed to measure …