Data Synthesis
Studies were organized into tables and categorized based on the
proportion of the sample with ABI. The following three categories were
used: <50% ABI, >50% ABI, or unknown. These
three groupings were used to separate studies to clarify the number and
type of interventions studied with a uniquely homogenous ABI population,
mixed heterogenous stroke and ABI population, or proportion unknown
population, respectively. This is to aide in transparency of the
research literature with respect to dysphagia interventions in ABI.