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What is the optimal treatment for presbyphonia? 2014

Joseph P Bradley, and Edie Hapner, and Michael M Johns

Emory Voice Center, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D000369	Aged, 80 and over	Persons 80 years of age and older.	Oldest Old
D000375	Aging	The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time.	Senescence,Aging, Biological,Biological Aging
D012720	Severity of Illness Index	Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.	Illness Index Severities,Illness Index Severity
D014833	Voice Quality	That component of SPEECH which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's VOICE when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.	Qualities, Voice,Quality, Voice,Voice Qualities
D014834	Voice Training	A variety of techniques used to help individuals utilize their voice for various purposes and with minimal use of muscle energy.	Training, Voice,Trainings, Voice,Voice Trainings
D016896	Treatment Outcome	Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.	Rehabilitation Outcome,Treatment Effectiveness,Clinical Effectiveness,Clinical Efficacy,Patient-Relevant Outcome,Treatment Efficacy,Effectiveness, Clinical,Effectiveness, Treatment,Efficacy, Clinical,Efficacy, Treatment,Outcome, Patient-Relevant,Outcome, Rehabilitation,Outcome, Treatment,Outcomes, Patient-Relevant,Patient Relevant Outcome,Patient-Relevant Outcomes
D055154	Dysphonia	Difficulty and/or pain in PHONATION or speaking.	Phonation Disorders,Spastic Dysphonia,Hyperkinetic Dysphonia,Neurologic Adducter Spastic Dysphonia,Organic Tremor Dysphonia,Spastic Dysphonia, Neurologic Adducter,Dysphonia, Hyperkinetic,Dysphonia, Organic Tremor,Dysphonia, Spastic,Phonation Disorder
D058753	Laryngoplasty	Restoration, reconstruction, or improvement of a defective or damaged LARYNX.	Medialization Laryngoplasty,Thyroplasty,Laryngoplasties,Laryngoplasties, Medialization,Laryngoplasty, Medialization,Medialization Laryngoplasties