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Evaluation of functional outcomes (speech, swallowing and voice) in patients attending speech pathology after head and neck cancer treatment(s): development of a multi-centre database

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

Alison R. Perry  and
Margaret A. Shaw
Alison R. Perry
Affiliation:
School of Human Communication Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
Margaret A. Shaw
Affiliation:
School of Human Communication Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
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Abstract

Since April 1997, in Melbourne, Australia, speech pathologists have collaborated to establish a prospective database of functional outcomes of speech, swallowing and voice for patients undergoing head and neck cancer treatments.

Staff at eight acute care hospitals, all of which offer speech pathology for head and neck cancer services in Victoria, are contributing data, collated centrally, in an agreed pro forma.

Early results are given (after 12 months’ data collection). The implications for clinically-based research, and the future potential for benchmarking outcomes – by expansion of the rehabilitation database beyond the current participating sites – is discussed.

This paper outlines the rationale of establishing the database is multicentred, and explores some of the complexities involved, including the challenges inherent in long-term accurate data collection in the head and neck cancer patient population. This work represents the development of an appropriate, usable tool for data collection on functional outcomes.

Keywords

Speech-Language PathologyDeglutitionHead and Neck NeoplasmsTreatment OutcomeDatabases
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 114 , Issue 8 , August 2000 , pp. 605 - 615
Copyright
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2000

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