ArticleDysphagia2020
Association Between Dysphagia and Inpatient Outcomes Across Frailty Level Among Patients ≥ 50 Years of Age.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Predictive models for dysphagia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Association between Dysphagia and Frailty in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Extracting geriatric syndromes from electronic health records: a scoping review.European geriatric medicine · 2026Article
- An Exploratory Classification Framework for Poststroke Dysphagia Severity Using Administrative Data: Administrative Data Dysphagia Severity Scale.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- Analysis of Patients' Dietary Status/Restrictions Following Instrumental Swallow Evaluations in Skilled Nursing Facilities.Dysphagia · 2025Article
- Eating and swallowing care disparities in persons with dementia: A conceptual framework.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Poststroke Dysphagia and Poststroke Depression and Its Risk Factors.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Minimally Invasive Murine Laryngoscopy for Close-Up Imaging of Laryngeal Motion during Breathing and Swallowing.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2023Article
- Acute Antipsychotic Use and Presence of Dysphagia Among Older Veterans with Heart Failure.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2023Article
- Validation of a Geriatric Bedside Swallowing Screen (GEBS): Protocol of a Prospective Cohort Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Racial disparities in inpatient palliative care consultation among frail older patients undergoing high-risk elective surgical procedures in the United States: a cross-sectional study of the national inpatient sample.Health affairs scholar · 2023Article
- New horizons in understanding oral health and swallowing function within the context of frailty.Age and ageing · 2023Article
- Incidence of Poststroke Depression in Patients With Poststroke Dysphagia.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2022Article
- Palliative Care Consultations in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Who Receives Palliative Care Consultations and What Does that Mean for Utilization?Neurocritical care · 2022Article
- Effects of frailty on postoperative clinical outcomes of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: results from the National Inpatient Sample database.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Association between Dysphagia and Surgical Outcomes across the Continuum of Frailty.Journal of nutrition in gerontology and geriatricsArticle
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Abstract
Frail patients may have heightened risk of dysphagia, a potentially modifiable health factor. Our aim is to examine whether the relationship between dysphagia and adverse health outcomes differs by frailty conditions among inpatients ≥ 50 years of age. Medical or surgical hospitalizations among patients ≥ 50 years of age in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's National Inpatient Sample from 2014 through the first three quarters of 2015 were included. Adverse outcomes included length of stay (LOS), hospital costs, in-hospital mortality, discharge status, and medical complications. Dysphagia was determined by ICD-9-CM codes. Frailty was defined as (a) ≥ 1 condition in the10-item Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) frailty measure and a frailty index for the (b) ACG and (c) a 19-item Frailty Risk Score (FRS) categorized as non-frail, pre-frail, and frail. Weighted generalized linear models for complex survey designs using generalized estimating equations were performed. Of 6,230,114 unweighted hospitalizations, 4.0% had a dysphagia diagnosis. Dysphagia presented in 3.1% and 11.0% of non-frail and frail hospitalizations using the binary ACG (p < 0.001) and in 2.9%, 7.9%, and 16.0% of non-frail, pre-frail, and frail hospitalizations using the indexed FRS (p < 0.001). Dysphagia was associated with greater LOS, higher total costs, increased non-routine discharges, and more medical complications among both frail and non-frail patients using the three frailty definitions. Dysphagia was associated with adverse outcomes in both frail and non-frail medical or surgical hospitalizations. Dysphagia management is an important consideration for providers seeking to reduce risk in vulnerable populations.
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