Cough Reflex Testing in Acute Dysphagia Management: Validity, Reliability and Clinical Application
Silent aspiration is associated with pneumonia and mortality, and is poorly identified by traditional clinical swallowing evaluation (CSE). Currently, there is no reliable test for detecting silent aspiration during CSE. There is, however, increasing evidence for the validity of cough reflex testing...
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University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8357 |