Difficulty swallowing a sign of poor prognosis among hospitalized patients

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Difficulty swallowing a sign of poor prognosis among hospitalized patients

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 ...

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