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The degree of altered diet recommendations for patients at each stage – based on initial assessments on the initial intensive treatment unit (ITU) and on the ward, and assessment at discharge from speech and language therapy (SLT) – for the endotracheal tube (ETT) cohort (a–c respectively), the tracheostomy cohort (d–f respectively) and the ward cohort (g & h respectively). NBM = nil by mouth; L = level of diet (see Table 1)
