Provision of services for cleft lip and palate

[...]occasional operators tend to be supported by an incomplete network of other inexperienced professionals. 1 Thirdly, cleft lip and palate is expressed with considerable heterogeneity, and the homogeneity of 40 unilateral cases is necessary for statistical discrimination of clinically relevant va...

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Published in:BMJ 1995-09, Vol.311 (7006), p.685-686
Main Authors: Shaw, William C, Devlin, H Brendan, Williams, Alison
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cleft Lip - therapy
Cleft lip and palate
Cleft palate
Cleft Palate - therapy
Epidemiology
Health Services - supply & distribution
Humans
Letter
Letters
Steering
Surgeons
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Summary:[...]occasional operators tend to be supported by an incomplete network of other inexperienced professionals. 1 Thirdly, cleft lip and palate is expressed with considerable heterogeneity, and the homogeneity of 40 unilateral cases is necessary for statistical discrimination of clinically relevant variation in surgical performance. 3 For surgeons seeing only five new patients annually, 28 years would have to elapse before audit could be performed.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.311.7006.685c