Oropharyngeal dysphagia after stroke: incidence, diagnosis, and clinical predictors in patients admitted to a neurorehabilitation unit.

Objective: We analyzed patients with stroke in a neurorehabilitation unit to define incidence of dysphagia, compare clinical bedside assessment and videofluoroscopy (VFS), and define any correlation between dysphagia and clinical characteristic of patients.

Methods: In all, 151 consecutive inpatients with recent ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke were enrolled.

Results: Dysphagia was clinically diagnosed in 62 of 151 patients (41%).