Difficulty swallowing a sign of poor prognosis among hospitalized patients
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 17:28
in Health & Medicine
Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, is associated with longer hospital stays among patients with any diagnosis, is increasingly prevalent with older age and is an indicator of a poor prognosis, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.