The Multidisciplinary team's performance in dysphagic patients care in the hospital environment

Integrative review of literature

Abstract

This article is an integrative review of the literature aiming to gather and synthesize the results of studies and research in order to know the productions of scientific knowledge related to the performance of the multidisciplinary team for the dysphagic person care in the hospital environment. The research was performed during the month of November of 2017, using BIREME, PUBMED and SCIELO databases, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The following keywords were used in combination: hospital, dysphagia and patient care team. As exclusion criteria were determined: articles not related to the theme and not fully available in the databases. After going through the keywords, languages and period of publication (2007-2017) criteria, there were 89 publications remaining, and after the exclusion criteria only (n = 75) were left, of which only 14 publications were selected for the present review. The present study contemplated information concerning authors, Journal, research title, type of study, objective and conclusion. Before the publications analyzed, it is noticed that there is little scientific material that reports the performance of a multidisciplinary team in the dysphagic patient care, and there is a need for more research in this area, since today dysphagia is increasingly present within the intensive care unit, especially in the elderly patient