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Value-based cleft lip-cleft palate care: a progress reportMegan M Abbott
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 126:1020-5. 2010..In addition, patients have a right to understand the value they receive from their care providers...- Potential economic benefit of cleft lip and palate repair in sub-Saharan AfricaBlake Alkire
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
World J Surg 35:1194-201. 2011..The present study aimed to establish a methodology for valuing the potential economic benefit of surgical intervention using cleft lip and palate (CLP) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a model... - The value proposition: using a cost improvement map to improve value for patients with nonsyndromic, isolated cleft palateMegan M Abbott
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Children s Hospital Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 127:1650-8. 2011..Although the concept of continuous quality improvement has taken a firm foothold in health care, techniques for measuring and continuously improving costs at the patient or system level are lacking... - Timeliness of surgical care in children with special health care needs: delayed palate repair for publicly insured and minority children with cleft palateMegan M Abbott
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pediatr Surg 46:1319-24. 2011..Disparities in access to health care are known to exist for the most vulnerable pediatric population, children with special health care needs. Timely access to surgical care in this population is critical, yet poorly studied... - Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan AfricaBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 8:509-21. 2011..These results were then extrapolated to the potential economic impact of treating all cases of hydrocephalus in infants in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)... - A microcosting approach for isolated, unilateral cleft lip care in the first year of lifeMegan M Abbott
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 127:333-9. 2011..Although outcomes measurement has received a great deal of attention since the quality movement began in the United States, costing methodologies are lacking... - American plastic surgery and global health: a brief historyChristopher D Hughes
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Plast Surg 68:222-5. 2012..Although quality care is being delivered to resource-poor regions around the world, many of the challenges of regionally appropriate, sustainable care persist today... - Cost of treating sagittal synostosis in the first year of lifeMegan M Abbott
Harvard Medical School, Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 23:88-93. 2012..Whereas the former claim is well substantiated and intuitive, the latter has not been validated by rigorous cost analysis... - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: implications for pediatric plastic surgeryMegan M Abbott
Harvard Medical School, Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 23:217-9. 2012.... - Cleft palate in Pfeiffer syndromeJoan M Stoler
Department of Genetics, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 20:1375-7. 2009..Nine patients were noted to have choanal atresia or stenosis. Clefting of the palate does occur in Pfeiffer syndrome but at a low frequency...