Construct and content validity of the functional oral intake scale; Analyzes from a cohort of patients with acquired brain injury.

CONCLUSIONS: The FOIS was robustly associated with indicators of dysphagia. However, associations with postural control, wakefulness, age and diagnosis highlights that tube feeding may be attributed to other issues than dysphagia. It should be further investigated whether FOIS level 4 is meaningful in neurorehabilitation.
PMID: 32772736 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Brain Injury - August 13, 2020 Category: Neurology Tags: Brain Inj Source Type: research