Consensus-Based Attributes for Identifying Patients With Spasmodic Dysphonia and Other Voice Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A roadblock for research on adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD), abductor SD (ABSD), voice tremor (VT), and muscular tension dysphonia (MTD) is the lack of criteria for selecting patients with these disorders.

Objective

To determine the agreement among experts not using standard guidelines to classify patients with ABSD, ADSD, VT, and MTD, and develop expert consensus attributes for classifying patients for research.

Design, setting and participants

From 2011 to 2016, a multicenter observational study examined agreement among blinded experts when classifying patients with ADSD, ABSD, VT or MTD (first study). Subsequently, a 4-stage Delphi method study used reiterative stages of review by an expert panel and 46 community experts to develop consensus on attri

SUBMITTER: Ludlow CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6143004 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature