The Pathway from Anatomy and Physiology to Diagnosis: A Developmental Perspective on Swallowing and Dysphagia.
C J Mayerl, F D H Gould, K Adjerid, C Edmonds, R Z German
PMID 35441265WHAT IT FOUND
A developmental perspective on swallowing clarifies terms and research gaps in infant dysphagia.
It reports no original methods, participants, results, or outcomes, so there is no finding to change practice.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review and developmental perspective on swallowing and dysphagia. It discusses anatomy, physiology, function, performance, and gaps in infant feeding research, especially preterm infants, but it does not present original methods, participants, results, or outcomes. There is no finding here to change clinical practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this as evidence that a swallowing intervention works. It is a conceptual review of anatomy, physiology, and research gaps, not a study of patients or outcomes.