Characteristics and Outcomes of Physician-to-Physician Telephone Consultation Programs: Environmental Scan.

Background: Telephone consultations between physicians provide quick access to medical advice, allowing patients to be cared for by calling physicians in their local settings.

Objective: As part of a quality assurance study of a physician-to-physician consultation program in Alberta, Canada, this environmental scan aims to identify the characteristics and outcomes of physician-to-physician telephone consultation programs across several countries.

Methods: We searched 7 databases to identify English publications in 2007-2017 describing physician-to-physician consultations using telephones as the main technology.

Swallowing function in patients with base of tongue cancers treated with primary surgery and reconstructed with a modified radial forearm free flap.

Objective: To report swallowing outcomes and biomechanical properties of the base of the tongue (BOT) and the posterior pharyngeal wall (PPW) in patients who undergo surgical reconstruction with the beavertail modification of radial forearm free flap after primary resection of BOT cancer.

Design: Prospective cohort study with a 1-year minimum follow-up performed between October 1, 2001, and August 31, 2005.

Setting: Tertiary care facility.

Early operative intervention versus conventional treatment in epistaxis: randomized prospective trial.

Objective: This prospective randomized trial was designed to compare intranasal endoscopic sphenopalatine artery ligation (ESAL) with conventional nasal packing in the treatment of recurrent epistaxis.

Methods: Patients were registered in the study databank following referral for epistaxis control to the otolaryngology service at the University of Alberta. All patients were initially packed using Merocel (Xomed Surgical Products, Jacksonville, FL) nasal dressings bilaterally.