Assessment of the role of the Edinburgh dysphagia score in referral triage in a national service evaluation of the urgent suspected upper gastrointestinal cancer pathway.
Umair KamranDominic Stephen KingMatthew BanksDavid NylanderSharan ShettySrisha HebbarRupert RansfordDavid MitchellMatthew WilliamsSanjay GuptaDanny CheungGraham BakerJames ReesMark FoxBarbara AshallSophie BarkerJohn GreenawayMiriam JonesMatthew CaffreySudarshan KadriMichael GlynnJames EvansTony C ThamNicola J AdderleyNigel TrudgillPublished in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics (2022)
In a national cohort, the EDS has high sensitivity and NPV as a triage tool for UGI cancer. The CDS offers even higher diagnostic accuracy. The EDS or CDS should be incorporated into the urgent suspected UGI cancer pathway.