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ReviewEuropean archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery2021

Standardization for oncologic head and neck surgery.

Ohad Ronen, K Thomas Robbins, Remco de Bree, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Dana M Hartl, Akihiro Homma, Avi Khafif, Luiz P Kowalski, Fernando López, Antti A Mäkitie and 5 more

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Review in European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 13 institutions in 12 countries.

Ohad RonenDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Affiliated with Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel. ohadr@gmc.gov.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7084-0695
K Thomas RobbinsDepartment of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Southern Illinois University Medical School, Springfield, IL, USA.
Remco de BreeDepartment of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Orlando Guntinas-LichiusDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry/Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Dana M HartlHead and Neck Oncology Service, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
Akihiro HommaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Avi KhafifHead and Neck Surgery and Oncology Unit, A.R.M. Center for Advanced Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Luiz P KowalskiDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
Fernando LópezDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias-ISPA, Oviedo, Spain.
Antti A MäkitieDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Wai Tong NgDepartment of Clinical Oncology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Alessandra RinaldoUniversity of Udine School of Medicine, Udine, Italy.
Juan P RodrigoDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias-ISPA, Oviedo, Spain.
Alvaro SanabriaDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidad de Antioquia/Hospital Universitario San Vicente Fundación, Medellín, Colombia.
Alfio FerlitoCoordinator of the International Head and Neck Scientific Group, Padua, Italy.
Universidad de Oviedo · ESAssuta Medical Center · ILBar-Ilan University · ILHokkaido University · JPHospital Universitario de San Vicente Fundación · COInstitut Gustave Roussy · FRJena University Hospital · DESouthern Illinois University School of Medicine · USUniversidade de São Paulo · BRUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity of Helsinki · FIUniversity of Hong Kong · HKUniversity of Udine · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inherent variability in performing specific surgical procedures for head and neck cancer remains a barrier for accurately assessing treatment outcomes, particularly in clinical trials. While non-surgical modalities for cancer therapeutics have evolved to become far more uniform, there remains the challenge to standardize surgery. The purpose of this review is to identify the barriers in achieving uniformity and to highlight efforts by surgical groups to standardize selected operations and nomenclature. While further improvements in standardization will remain a challenge, we must encourage surgical groups to focus on strategies that provide such a level.

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Head and Neck NeoplasmsHumansMedical OncologyReference StandardsHead and neck cancerQuality assuranceStandardizationSurgical oncology

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PMID33982178
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