Measuring quality of life in cleft lip and palate patients: currently available patient-reported outcomes measures.

Abstract

There is a lack of comprehensive, valid, and reliable questionnaires for cleft lip and palate surgery.

For thorough assessment of satisfaction, further research to develop and validate cleft lip and palate surgery-specific instruments is needed.

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Subjects

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Age Factors
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Cleft Lip
• Cleft Palate
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Infant
• Male
• Quality of Life
• Questionnaires
• Reconstructive Surgical Procedures
• Reproducibility of Results
• Sex Factors
• Treatment Outcome

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Authors

• Donna A Eckstein
• Rebecca L Wu
• Takintope Akinbiyi
• Lester Silver
• Peter J Taub

Publication date

2011-10-27

Journal

Journal topics

• Surgery, Plastic

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Release reference

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Nov;128(5):518e-526e

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