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Cost of Cleft Team Care at an Academic Children's Hospital.

Cleft Palate Craniofac J

November 2022

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.

Background: The financial burden of cleft-craniofacial team care is substantial, and high costs can hinder successful completion of team care.

Solution: Collaboration with multiple stakeholders including providers, insurers, and patient guardians, as well as hospital administrators, is critical to increase patient retention and improve final clinical outcomes.

What We Do That Is New: At our cleft and craniofacial center, charges for a team care visit fall into one of three categories-hospital fees, professional fees, or external fees.

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Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) experience disproportionately high burdens of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)-associated anal cancers. Recent focus has shifted to anorectal cancer prevention through high-resolution anoscopy (HRA); however, little is known about sexual minority men's perceptions, attitudes, or beliefs regarding HRA. We conducted 4 qualitative Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) (n = 15) with sexual minority men, focusing on their beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of undergoing HRA.

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Objective: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is an inflammatory disease of the paranasal sinuses and mucosa. Topical nasal corticosteroids are a mainstay treatment for CRS by reducing sinonasal inflammation and improving mucociliary clearance. However, topical corticosteroids have limited paranasal distribution, and patient response to treatment has been variable in randomized controlled trials (RCT).

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Francis I. Proctor, MD and his wife Elizabeth C. Proctor: Their lives and legacy.

J Med Biogr

August 2020

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and the Center for History Of Medicine, 12275Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology is internationally recognized for its research in the fields of ocular inflammatory and infectious diseases. Although the name of one of its founders, Francis I.

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