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Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

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Poster<br />

Topic: Spine<br />

Abstract number: 26071<br />

DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF A SHORT QUESTIONNAIRE TO ASSESS<br />

DYSPHAGIA AFTER ANTERIOR CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY<br />

Martin SKEPPHOLM 1 , Catarina INGEBRO 2 , Therese ENGSTRÖM 2 , Claes<br />

OLERUD 3<br />

1 Stockholm Spine Center, Upplands Väsby (SWEDEN), 2 Department of Speech<br />

Pathology, Stockholm (SWEDEN), 3 Dept Orthopaedics, Uppasla (SWEDEN)<br />

Dysphagia is frequent after anterior C-spine surgery. An easy-to-use instrument to<br />

quantify dysphagia (DSQ) was constructed and its validity and reliability evaluated.45<br />

patients (22 women) with dysphagia were included; mean age 64,8±10,4 years. At<br />

the first visit the patients completed DSQ, MD Anderson Dysphagia Inventory<br />

(MDADI) and Bazaz scores. 2 weeks later they completed DSQ and a quality-of-life<br />

score: EQ-5D. Five patients missed the second occasion why 40 patients<br />

participated in the test-retest analysis and the correlation to EQ-5D.The DSQ<br />

averaged 6,3±2,7 and was fairly normally distributed as was the MDADI but not the<br />

dstribution of the Bazaz score. The DSQ correlated to the MDADI (r=-0,64, P

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