Table II.

Assigned Dysphagia Etiologies

GROUP	Description
STROKE	Post-stroke patients, all types
NEURO	Chronic neurologic disease (ALS, Parkinson’s, neuropathy, dementia)
DYSPHAGIA NOS	Generalized weakness, frailty, deconditioning without specific diagnosis, presentation with aspiration pneumonia without other known cause.
LARYNX	Laryngeal non-cancer etiology including stenosis, paralysis
TRAUMA	Neurologic trauma, brain injury, neck trauma
SURGERY	Post-operative head and neck surgery/cancer, thoracic surgery, cervical spine surgery, or other post-operative cause
ESOPH	Cricopharyngeal or esophageal dysphagia