Patient Adherence to Dysphagia Recommendations: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Patient adherence to treatment recommendations is an important issue for healthcare providers, in a multitude of specialties, and is critical when assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of a particular treatment approach. Patients who have swallowing impairment often require complex and specific interventions requiring altered daily patterns of behavior. Patients with dysphagia who do not follow recommendations or prescribed exercises may not receive maximum benefit of an intervention. Poor adherence also makes it more difficult to evaluate efficacy of a treatment both clinically and in experimental settings. Further, swallow safety can be compromised if certain recommendations are not followed. Our purpose was to systematically review the literature to understand what is known about adh

SUBMITTER: Krekeler BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5866734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature