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.