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SynthesisThe Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association2023

Quality of Life After Orthognathic Surgery in Patients with Cleft: An Overview of Available Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.

Roan L M Ploumen, Samuel H Willemse, Ronald E G Jonkman, Jitske W Nolte, Alfred G Becking

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Synthesis in The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, 2023. 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
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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Proxy- and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Cleft Lip and/or Palate Under 8 Years of Age: A Scoping Review.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2026
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  3. The Dutch Version of the Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire (OQLQ-NL): Validation for Cleft Patients.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2025
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  4. Methodological quality of 100 recent systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments: an overview of reviews.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024
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  5. Finnish Translation and Linguistic Validation of the CLEFT-Q Questionnaire.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Roan L M PloumenDepartment of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 26066Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4012-2291
Samuel H WillemseDepartment of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 26066Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4527-0528
Ronald E G JonkmanDepartment of Orthodontics, 1192Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5905-3639
Jitske W NolteDepartment of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 26066Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1570-6263
Alfred G BeckingDepartment of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 26066Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6371-4671
Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NLAcademic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Measuring the impact of orthognathic surgery on quality of life is of significant importance in patients with cleft deformities. Standardized tools such as patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are needed to fully comprehend patients' needs and perceptions. Therefore, the availability of reliable, valid, and comprehensive questionnaires for patients is essential. The aim of this study is to identify PROMs measuring the impact of orthognathic surgery on quality of life in patients with cleft deformities and to evaluate the identified PROMs. A systematic search of the literature was performed according to the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis guidelines. All validated PROMs, regarding the impact of orthognathic surgery on quality of life in patients with cleft deformities, were identified and assessed according to the quality criteria proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires. An electronic search yielded 577 articles. After a full-text review of 87 articles, 4 articles met the inclusion criteria, comprising 58 PROMs. Of these 58 PROMs, 1 PROM (the CLEFT-Q) has been validated to measure the impact of orthognathic surgery on patients with a facial cleft. Evaluation of methodological quality of the included articles and assessment of the measurement properties of the CLEFT-Q show that the CLEFT-Q scores relatively good for all available measurement properties, making it suitable for immediate use. The CLEFT-Q was found to be the only valid instrument so far to measure the impact of orthognathic surgery on the quality of life in patients with cleft deformities.

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Cleft PalateOrthognathic Surgical ProceduresPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresQuality of LifeHealth StatusHealth SurveysHumanscraniofacial morphologyorthognathic surgeryquality of life

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PMID34919469
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