Clinical Decision-Making During FEES: The Impact of Residue Amount and Location

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Conditions studied: Decision Making

In brief

In this study, the investigator aims to identify the threshold of food residue visualized in the throat during a FEES (fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing) that speech-language pathologists allow before restricting a patient from eating. 60 speech-language pathologists will be required to participate, with half of them watching a pre-recorded video detailing current research about residue in the throat of pharynx. The group watching the video will then re-score their images. This investigates the impact of education on clinical decision-making. Finally, 8 clinicians will meet with the researcher individually to share their clinical decision-making rationale. With this information, the researcher hopes to identify a patient population who is at risk for diet restrictions in order to encourage speech-language pathologists to extend the swallow study and trial more compensatory strategies before restricting the patient's diet.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07278076

Run by

Rush University Medical Center

People needed

60

Starts

2026-11-01

Expected to finish

2027-05-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-20

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Speech language pathologists with at least one year of experience conducting FEES (flexible endoscopic evaluations of swallowing)

You may not qualify if…

• Anyone who is not a speech pathologist, or has less than one year of experience conducting FEES.

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