ReviewDysphagia2022
White Paper by the European Society for Swallowing Disorders: Screening and Non-instrumental Assessment for Dysphagia in Adults.
Review in Dysphagia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Dental Factors Associated With Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Institutionalised Older Adults: A Systematic Review.Gerodontology · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence and Risk Factors of Dysphagia in Patients with Sarcopenia: A Meta-Analysis.Dysphagia · 2026Pooled it
- Risk Factors for Postoperative Dysphagia in Patients with Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Dysphagia · 2026Pooled it
- Esophageal and Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: Clinical Recommendations From the United European Gastroenterology and European Society for Neurogastroenterology and Motility.United European gastroenterology journal · 2025Guideline
- ESSD-ESGAR best practice position statements on the technical performance of videofluoroscopic swallowing studies in adult patients with swallowing disorders.European radiology · 2025Guideline
- The Prevalence of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Dysphagia · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia Models in Rodents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Evaluating swallowing capacity in older adults with dysphagia: high protein, low carbohydrate smoothie formulas versus commercial formula.BMC geriatrics · 2025Trial
- Artificial intelligence for dysphagia screening: A machine learning approach.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Definition of Clinically Meaningful Thresholds for the Brief Esophageal Dysphagia Questionnaire and Eckardt Score: A Multicenter Psychometric Study.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Article
- Ultrasound swallowing assessment: the impact of image post-processing on measurement reliability.Physical and engineering sciences in medicine · 2026Article
- Breathe, Eat, Talk: Three Essential Ingredients to Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Movement Disorders.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2026Review
- Assessment of Hyoid Bone Movement by Simultaneous Ultrasound and Videofluoroscopic Imaging.Dysphagia · 2026Article
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- The Dysphagia Outcome and Severity Scale (DOSS) and non-instrumental swallowing measures in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of effortful swallow in patients with post stroke dysphagia using visual analysis of swallowing efficiency and safety (VASES) protocol.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Effect of the year-round simple swallowing training program in community-dwelling older people with mild oropharyngeal dysphagia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Association between Swallowing Disorders and Independence during Mealtime in Neurological Diseases: A Cross-sectional Study.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2026Article
32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
This White Paper by the European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD) reports on the current state of screening and non-instrumental assessment for dysphagia in adults. An overview is provided on the measures that are available, and how to select screening tools and assessments. Emphasis is placed on different types of screening, patient-reported measures, assessment of anatomy and physiology of the swallowing act, and clinical swallowing evaluation. Many screening and non-instrumental assessments are available for evaluating dysphagia in adults; however, their use may not be warranted due to poor diagnostic performance or lacking robust psychometric properties. This white paper provides recommendations on how to select best evidence-based screening tools and non-instrumental assessments for use in clinical practice targeting different constructs, target populations and respondents, based on criteria for diagnostic performance, psychometric properties (reliability, validity, and responsiveness), and feasibility. In addition, gaps in research that need to be addressed in future studies are discussed. The following recommendations are made: (1) discontinue the use of non-validated dysphagia screening tools and assessments; (2) implement screening using tools that have optimal diagnostic performance in selected populations that are at risk of dysphagia, such as stroke patients, frail older persons, patients with progressive neurological diseases, persons with cerebral palsy, and patients with head and neck cancer; (3) implement measures that demonstrate robust psychometric properties; and (4) provide quality training in dysphagia screening and assessment to all clinicians involved in the care and management of persons with dysphagia.
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