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ReviewSeminars in plastic surgery2025

Introduction to Multidisciplinary Clinics and Their Value.

Winston R Owens, Josephine L Schmidt, Pierce C Hollier, Sam H Cole, Edward P Buchanan, Jessica A Ching

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Review in Seminars in plastic surgery, 2025. 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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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Winston R OwensDivision of Plastic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Josephine L SchmidtDivision of Plastic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Pierce C HollierDepartment of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Sam H ColeDivision of Plastic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Edward P BuchananDivision of Plastic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Jessica A ChingDivision of Plastic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multidisciplinary clinics (MDC) are a mainstay in medical and surgical management of complex diseases in the adult and pediatric populations. Due to increasingly complicated multimodal treatment plans and difficulties coordinating care, MDCs emerged to simplify care administration for patients and providers while optimizing outcomes. Multidisciplinary care is delivered in a variety of ways; however, the most common setups are concurrent and sequential clinics. With proper personnel and infrastructure organization, MDCs are beneficial to patients, providers, and institutions both clinically and financially. This introductory article will describe a brief history of MDCs, different models of operation, and known clinical and financial gains.

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cost-efficientMDCMDTmultidisciplinary clinicsmultidisciplinary teamvalue

Identifiers

PMID40406635
PMCPMC12094838

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