Insights Into Oropharyngeal Dysphagia From Administrative Data and Clinical Registries: A Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: Purpose:The call for data-driven health care has been bolstered by the digitization of medical records, quality initiatives, and payment reform. Administrative databases and clinical registries are increasingly being used to study oropharyngeal dysphagia and to facilitate data-driven decision making. The objective of this work was to summarize key findings, etiologies studied, data sources used, study objectives, and quality of evidence of all original research articles that have investigated oropharyngeal dysphagia or aspiration pneumonia using administrative or clinical registry data to date. Method:A literature search was completed in MEDLINE, Scopus, and Google Scholar (January 1, 1990, to February 1, 2017). Each study that met inclusion criteria was rated for quality of evidence on a

SUBMITTER: Bartlett RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6105122 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature