Frontiers in Nutrition
Development of a three-item short form of the EAT-10 for screening suspected dysphagia in hospitalized older adults: findings from a multicentre study
Aim To develop a three-item short form of the EAT-10 by identifying the smallest subset of items that preserves the screening performance of the full questionnaire in hospitalized older adults. Design Multicentre cross-sectional observational study. Methods The study was conducted in nine public hospitals in Spain within the NUTRIFAG project. Hospitalized patients aged ≥65 years with a length of stay ≥48 h were included. Patients receiving enteral or parenteral nutrition at admission, those in terminal condition, o …