Screening of dysphagia in geriatrics

BMC Geriatrics

Table 9 Correlation between total score of bedside evaluation and subitems of eating habits

	Total score of Bedside evaluation
	r	P value
No. of meals	0.091	0.202
Consistency of meal	-0.172	0.015
Eating environment	0.058	0.415
Presence of difficult consistency	0.363	< 0.001
The most difficult consistency	0.234	0.036

Non-significant P value > 0.05 Significant P value < 0.05 highly significant P value < 0.01
Table 9 shows that total score of bedside evaluation has a significant negative correlation with consistency of meal with p value 0.015 and positive correlation with presence of difficult consistency with p value < 0.001and the most difficult consistency with p value 0.036

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