Background: Functional mobility, comfort and the absence of pain are key goals of prosthetic treatment. Outcome measures (OMs) evaluate the impact of treatment and normative and minimal detectable change (MDC) values are key to interpreting these scores and measuring treatment outcomes.
Objectives: This study seeks to 1) present practice-based normative values of four commonly used OMs at four prosthetic milestones and 2) explore the MDC of the measures over the treatment period.
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr
December 2023
Background: Patients who are symptomatic from diaphragmatic dysfunction may benefit from diaphragmatic plication. We recently modified our plication approach from open thoracotomy to robotic transthoracic. We report our short-term outcomes.
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