Baseline nutritional-inflammatory status, rather than in-hospital biochemical deterioration, is associated with swallowing recovery in patients with pneumonia: A retrospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND & AIMS Dysphagia is common in patients hospitalized for pneumonia and is closely associated with nutritional status. Although poor nutritional status at admission is associated with adverse outcomes, the relationship between short-term in-hospital changes in biochemical nutritional-inflammatory indices and s...