Preoperative Criteria Predict Operative Time Variability Within Tympanoplasty Procedures.

Objective: To identify preoperative patient and surgical parameters that predict operative time variability within tympanoplasty current procedural terminology (CPT) codes.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Outcomes of a novel alloplastic technique for external auditory canal repair in tympanomastoidectomy.

Objective: To analyze surgical outcomes of a novel alloplastic reconstruction technique for partial external auditory canal (EAC) defects in tympanomastoidectomy.

Methods: Retrospective study of 51 patients with cholesteatoma who underwent repair of partial EAC defects during tympanomastoidectomy at a tertiary referral center over 8 years. Nineteen patients were treated with a novel alloplastic graft technique using hydroxyapatite cement and bone pâté for EAC repair.

Face-to-Face Compared With Online Collected Accounts of Health and Illness Experiences: A Scoping Review.

Advocates of online alternatives to face-to-face interviewing suggest online approaches save money and time, whereas others have raised concerns about the quality and content of the resulting data. These issues affect researchers designing and costing their studies and application reviewers and research funders. We conducted a scoping review of English language articles describing the range of online alternative approaches.