Dysphagia found to increase length of hospital stay and mortality risk
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 10:42
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that hospitalised patients with dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, averaged a 40 percent longer hospital stay than patients without the condition. They also had a generally poorer prognosis. The research is published in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...