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Dysphagia
Published in: Dysphagia 1/2004

01-01-2004 | Letter to the Editor

Setting the Bar in Clinical Research? (Comment on Selected Recent Dysphagia Literature: “Rehabilitation of Swallowing by Exercise in Tube-Fed Patients with Pharyngeal Dysphagia Secondary to Abnormal UES Opening”, Dysphagia 18:64–65, 2003).

Authors: Michael A. Crary, Ph.D., Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D., Wesley Johnson, Ph.D.

Published in: Dysphagia | Issue 1/2004

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The following comments are in response to a recent review of the article by Shaker and colleagues (Dysphagia 18:64–65, 2003) describing a clinical investigation of their head lift exercise for dysphagia therapy. The issues raised in this letter are not intended to criticize the excellent work done by this group in the development of the head lift exercise approach to dysphagia therapy. Rather, our comments are offered in an attempt to identify limitations in the Shaker et al. paper in the hope that readers of the review will be able to form a less biased opinion regarding the conclusions reached by Shaker et al. …
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Metadata
Title
Setting the Bar in Clinical Research? (Comment on Selected Recent Dysphagia Literature: “Rehabilitation of Swallowing by Exercise in Tube-Fed Patients with Pharyngeal Dysphagia Secondary to Abnormal UES Opening”, Dysphagia 18:64–65, 2003).
Authors
Michael A. Crary, Ph.D.
Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D.
Wesley Johnson, Ph.D.
Publication date
01-01-2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Dysphagia / Issue 1/2004
Print ISSN: 0179-051X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0460
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00455-003-0034-6

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