Does the total dysphagia risk score correlate with swallowing function examined by video fluoroscopy?

CONCLUSION: Patients with high risk TDRS scores have higher SPS scores when compared to the intermediate group and the intermediate and low risk group together. However, low risk patients in our patient cohort could not be distinguished from high or intermediate risk patients. Advances in knowledge: TDRS was never correlated with video fluoroscopies in past studies. The hypothesis of this paper was to see if the TDRS could guide us to see which patients are at risk for high scores on SPS and PAS and might need a videofluoroscopic examination in the follow up. Given the poor correlations in our study however, we cannot recommend the use of the TDRS to select patients who might benefit from the additional information provided by videofluoroscopies. PMID: 29212356 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Radiology - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Br J Radiol Source Type: research