ArticleThe Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association2022
Follow-Up Care Barriers for Patients with Orofacial Clefts.
Article in The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Burden of Travel is not Associated with Adherence to Follow-up Appointments - A Call for Centralization of Cleft Care in Germany.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study was to evaluate whether a patient with a cleft's age, associated syndrome, cleft phenotype or travel distance affects their follow-up rate.
designThis study is a retrospective review of patients with CL/P treated by a craniofacial clinic.
settingThe setting was a craniofacial clinic at a tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS,
participantsCandidates were patients seen by the craniofacial clinic between January 2007 and December 2019. An initial pool of 589 patients was then reduced to 440 due to exclusion criteria.
interventionsNone. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): The outcome measure was actual patient attendance to the craniofacial team compared to the team goal expectation of annual return visits.
resultsThe mean age of participants at the end of the study was 9.0 ± 5.4 years with a mean follow-up period (total possible follow-up period length based on patient age at presentation and study window) of 5.5 ± 3.6 years. There was no association between cleft phenotype, type of syndrome, or distance to the clinic with attendance. Children with syndromes had an 11% decrease in the odds of attending follow-up visits with each 1-year increase in age compared to a 4% decrease in children without syndromes.
conclusionsThe only significant factors determining patient attendance were the presence of a syndrome and increasing age.
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