Virtual consultations for oral surgery patients.

Background: Following Covid-19, many departments have incorporated teledentistry into practice. As new consultation methods are introduced, it's imperative that patients have as similar an experience with virtual consultations to ensure informed decision-making. This project evaluated patients' perceptions of video consultations and determined if patients seen virtually received the same standard of information by auditing compliance with sending patient information leaflets (PILs) following video consultation.

An Educational Intervention to Improve Inpatient Documentation of High-risk Diagnoses by Pediatric Residents.

Objectives: Diagnoses extracted from physician notes are used to calculate hospital quality metrics; failure to document high-risk diagnoses may lead to the appearance of worse-than-expected outcomes for complex patients. Academic hospitals often rely on documentation authored by trainees, yet residents receive little training in this regard. In this study, we evaluate inpatient pediatric resident notes to determine which high-risk diagnoses are commonly missed and assess the efficacy of a multitiered intervention to improve the documentation of these diagnoses.

Routine central compartment lymph node dissection for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Background: The role of routine central compartment neck dissection in papillary thyroid cancer is controversial.

Methods: A retrospective medical record review was conducted of 83 patients with papillary thyroid cancer who received either total or hemithyroidectomy and central compartment lymphadenectomy.

Results: Positive central compartment node metastases were found in approximately equal rates between older and younger patients (38.