Swallowing Ability and Function Evaluation (SAFE)

Swallowing Ability and Function Evaluation (SAFE), Deborah Ross-Swain, Peggy Kipping and Patricia Yee. A carefully standardized, efficient, and comprehensive way to evaluate swallowing. Provides a diagnosis or label of dysphagia to generate a treatment plan. Administered quickly in clinical or bedside assessment, it provides a comprehensive picture of swallowing ability. It focuses on identifying specific problems, developing treatment plans, making periodic reevaluations and assessments of progress, and determining effectiveness of various interventions on test performance.

Contains: examiner’s manual, treatment manual, profile/examiner record forms (pad of 50).

A carefully standardized, efficient, and comprehensive way to evaluate swallowing

Provides a diagnosis or label of dysphagia to generate a treatment plan