Oral health care and aspiration pneumonia in frail older people: a systematic literature review.

Objective: To systematically review the literature on oral health care interventions in frail older people and the effect on the incidence of aspiration pneumonia.

Background: Oral health care seems to play an important role in the prevention of aspiration pneumonia in frail older people.

Methods: Pubmed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, EMBASE and CINAHL were searched for eligible intervention studies.