BACKGROUND: Patients with cleft lip and/or palate can undergo numerous procedures to
improve appearance, speech, dentition and hearing. We developed a cleft-specific patient-…

Appearance and facial function are concepts not well addressed in current pediatric patient-reported
outcome measures (PROM) for facial conditions. We aimed to develop a new …

Background: Measuring the patient perspective is important in evaluating outcomes of cleft
care. Understanding how treatment outcomes vary depending on cleft type may allow for …

Traditional quality measures for chronic wounds have focused on objective outcomes that
are challenging to risk adjust, lack patient input, and have limited ability to inform quality …

Background: There is currently a mandate globally to incorporate patient’s perceptions of
their illness into outcome measures, in order to provide a deeper insight into medical practice. …

Background: Patient-reported outcome measures are widely used to improve health services
and patient outcomes. The aim of our study was to describe the development of 2 ear-…

Introduction Most patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) for chronic wounds are
specific to a single wound type (eg, pressure ulcer) or part of the body. A barrier to outcome …

Objective: The concepts important to children and young adults who undergo treatments for
facial differences are not well-defined. Measurement of treatment outcomes from the patient’…

Background: A well-visualized colon during colonoscopy has a direct impact on interpretation
of findings and need for repeat procedure. Studies have been conducted in the adult …

Introduction Most patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) for chronic wounds are
specific to a single wound type (eg, pressure ulcer) or part of the body. A barrier to outcome …