Intensive care unit-acquired dysphagia – change in feeding route after a standardized dysphagia assessment in neurocritical care patients

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• What: The aim of this study was to investigate in how many patients the dysphagia assessment (DA) conducted by an SLP leads to a change in the feeding route (CIFR). Although, the study showed a significant discrepancy in recommendations for the feeding route between the SLP and the ICU-team, it remains unclear if a standardized DA by a dysphagia expert -when to compared to the assessment of the multidisciplinary ICU-team- leads to an improvement in patient related outcomes (e_g, reduction of pneumonia rate, earlier discharge from ICU or reduction of extubation failure).
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