A Survey of Clinician Decision Making When Identifying Swallowing Impairments and Determining Treatment

Conclusions Poor to modest agreement in swallowing impairment identification, frequent false positives, and wide variability in treatment planning recommendations suggest that additional research and training in healthy and disordered swallowing are needed to increase accurate dysphagia diagnosis and treatment among clinicians.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research