NCT01974089

Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 154 (actual)
• Sponsor: Regionshospital Nordjylland · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates relationship between community acquired pneumonia and oropharyngeal dysphagia in patients admitted to a department of respiratory medicine in Northern Denmark. The endpoints will be re-hospitalisation and mortality.

Detailed description

Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly patients. Risk factors are many including oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). Systematic screening of OD is recommended for at-risk popolations, however these resommandations do not specifically address elderly patients hospitalized with CAP. In this study OD is assessed in all patients by Volume-Viscosity Swallowing Test (V-VST) The study is registered by the Danish Data Protection Authority (2008-58-0028)

Conditions

• Dysphagia
• Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dysphagia	Oropharyngeal dysphagia assessed by Volume-Viscosity Svallowing Test

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2014-03-01
• First posted: 2013-11-01
• Last updated: 2019-04-24
• Results posted: 2018-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark