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Dysphagia

There is no clear benefit from aggressive management by a dysphagia therapist d

Why?

  • A therapist-selected diet and supervision is not clearly better than a patient-selected diet combined with swallowing exercises at reducing pneumonia, dehydration or malnutrition. d

Expiry date: October 2003
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Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   G  Donnan
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , CM   Ball