Reliability of Ultrasound Examination of Hyoid Bone Displacement Amplitude: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Dysphagia
Andrade, R. A., do Sales Coriolano, M. D. G. W., et al. (2022).
Dysphagia, 37(6), 1375-1385.
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the reliability of ultrasound examination to measure hyoid bone displacement amplitude.
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel Brazil (CAPES)
From database inception to June 24, 2021
Any study design
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Findings demonstrated that the use of ultrasound examination to measure hyoid bone displacement amplitude had a pooled interrater reliability of 0.858 and intrarater reliability of 0.968. These results should be interpreted with caution due to small sample sizes, an overall paucity of evidence, and heterogeneity in population studied (e.g., non-dysphagic patients, patients with dysphagia), types of swallows observed (e.g., saliva swallows, 5 ml liquid swallows), and other study parameters (e.g., time interval between rater analyses, frames per second, training protocols). Further research is indicated.
