## Abstract Underreporting of swallowing disturbances by Parkinson's disease (PD) patients may lead to delay in diagnosis and treatment, alerting the physician to an existing dysphagia only after the first episode of aspiration pneumonia. We developed and validated a swallowing disturbance question
Development and validation of a new screening questionnaire for dysphagia in early stages of Parkinson's disease
✍ Scribed by Simons, Janine A.; Fietzek, Urban M.; Waldmann, Annika; Warnecke, Tobias; Schuster, Tibor; Ceballos-Baumann, Andrés O.
- Book ID
- 127104006
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 614 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-8020
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