Acceptability of oral solid medicines in older adults with and without dysphagia: A nested pilot validation questionnaire based observational study
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Assessment of acceptability of oral solid medicines in older ambulatory patients with and without dysphagia found that higher acceptability scores were seen in the dysphagic population than in the non-dysphagic population for all of the dosage forms that were easier to swallow than tablets and capsules.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Pharmaceutics.The article was published on 2016-10-30 and is currently open access. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dysphagia & Population.read more
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Table 1. Products used to represent 9 mm tablets in different shapes 
Table 2. Products used to represent various oral formulations 
Fig 3. Acceptability scores of different oral solid dosage forms (ODT: orally disintegrating tablet). 
Table 4. Participants’ impression on the flexible solid oral dosage forms. 2 
Figure 1. Percentage of participants selecting the tablet size and shape that started to cause difficulty in swallowing. 
Fig 2. Percentage of participants selecting the capsule size that might start to cause difficulty in swallowing
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