Table 3.

Association between critical care and swallowing data (n = 27).

Swallowing variable	Median (IQR)	Age r (p-value)	ETT duration r (p-value)	MV duration r (p-value)	ICU LOS r (p-value)	Hospital LOS r (p-value)
Duration to SP assessment	29 (23)	0.022 (0.914)	0.541 (0.004∗∗)	0.840 (0.000∗∗)	0.875 (0.000∗∗)	0.727 (0.000∗∗)
Duration to face-to-face SP assessment	33 (18)	0.051 (0.799)	0.733 (0.000∗∗)	0.935 (0.000∗∗)	0.930 (0.000∗∗)	0.745 (0.000∗∗)
Dysphagia severity	5 (4)	−0.169 (0.399)	−0.572 (0.002∗∗)	−0.637 (0.000∗∗)	−0.602 (0.001∗∗)	−0.633 (0.000∗∗)
Duration to initiate oral feeding	38.5 (31.25)	0.096 (0.642)	0.454 (0.020∗)	0.657 (0.000∗∗)	0.867 (0.000∗∗)	0.957 (0.000∗∗)
Duration to commencing dysphagia rehabilitation	39 (17)	0.288 (0.452)	−0.291 (0.447)	0.156 (0.156)	0.980 (0.000∗∗)	0.872 (0.002∗∗)
Duration to resolution of dysphagia	44 (29)	0.109 (0.630)	0.626 (0.002∗∗)	0.586 (0.004∗∗)	0.605 (0.003∗∗)	0.918 (0.000∗∗)
Duration of enteral feeding	40 (37)	0.184 (0.378)	0.451 (0.024∗)	0.669 (0.000∗∗)	0.872 (0.000∗∗)	0.962 (0.000∗∗)

ETT, endotracheal tube; LOS, length of stay; MV, mechanical ventilation; SP, speech pathology.

∗sig at 0.05; ∗∗ sig at 0.01.