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	Scala di Valutazione e Gravità della Disfagia	Questionario sulla Qualità della Vita legata alla Deglutizione
Campo	Logopedia	Logopedia
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1999	2002
Ideatore	O'Neil, K. H., et al.	McHorney, C. A., et al.
Tipo	Clinician-rated	Self-report
Fonte seminale	O'Neil, K. H., Purdy, M., Falk, J., & Gidas, L. (1999). The Dysphagia Outcome and Severity Scale. Dysphagia, 14(3), 139–145.	McHorney, C. A., Bricker, D. E., Kramer, A. E., et al. (2000). The SWAL-QoL Outcomes Tool for Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Adults: I. Conceptualization and Item Development. Dysphagia, 15(3), 115–121.
Alias	DOSS	SWAL-QoL, SWAL-CARE
Correlati	2	2
Sintesi	The Dysphagia Outcome and Severity Scale (DOSS) is a 7-point clinician-rated ordinal scale that measures the severity of swallowing dysfunction and functional swallowing outcomes across two dimensions: safety (penetration-aspiration risk) and efficiency (oral intake adequacy and diet level tolerance). Developed by O'Neil and colleagues in 1999, DOSS integrates clinical observation with videofluoroscopic findings to provide a standardized, functionally meaningful classification of swallowing status from normal to non-functional.	The Swallowing Quality of Life (SWAL-QoL) Questionnaire is a comprehensive 44-item self-report measure of the psychosocial and functional impact of dysphagia across 11 quality-of-life domains, including eating burden, food selection, social participation, emotional impact, and fatigue. Developed by McHorney and colleagues (2002), SWAL-QoL captures the patient perspective on swallowing-related disability, complementing objective clinical measures (dysphagia severity, aspiration risk) with data on lived experience and psychological burden. A brief 15-item version, SWAL-CARE, enables efficient monitoring of treatment response.