Development and Implementation of Integrated Radiologist-Speech Pathologist Report for Modified Barium Swallow Study: Experience at a Multi-hospital Single Health Care System.
Curr Probl Diagn Radiol
; 52(2): 89-92, 2023.
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ABSTRACT
Dysphagia, or a disorder of swallowing, is very common and is reported in 1 out of 25 adults with approximately 1 million new cases per year in the United States alone. This also disproportionately impacts elderly patients, with a prevalence of 17%. Patients with dysphagia may have severe clinical complications such as starvation, dehydration, and airway obstruction- which may further increase mortality. Hence, timely and accurate diagnosis of dysphagia is hence crucial in management considerations. The gold standard for evaluating and diagnosing dysphagia is a modified barium swallow study (MBSS). The study is typically performed as a collaborative effort between a speech language pathologist (SLP) and a radiologist, who bring their individual skill sets to the table. Current MBSS reporting involves separately dictated and interpreted reports from the SLP and radiologist. In this paper, we elucidate our experience in a multi-institutional healthcare system wherein we have devised a single, integrated report for MBSS, which involves collaborative effort between SLP and the radiologist. We weight the advantages and disadvantages of unified reporting, the challenges of implementing it in a large healthcare system, and note how it can help improve efficiency and deliver unified patient care. We hope that this would be a template for other institutions as well as improve standardization of reporting techniques.
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Assunto principal:
Transtornos de Deglutição
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Implementation_research
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Adult
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Aged
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Humans
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America do norte
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En
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Curr Probl Diagn Radiol
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article