Determining Medical Urgency of Voice Disorders Using Auditory-Perceptual Voice Assessments Performed by Speech-Language Pathologists.

Robert Brinton FujikiPeter W SandersM Preeti SivasankarStacey Halum

Published in: The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology (2021)

SLPs identified 86% of medically urgent voice disorders when auditory perceptual assessments were combined with medical history information. Further work is needed to determine what medical history information is most crucial to rating accuracy and what speech tasks might best separate urgent and nonurgent patients.

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