Targeting Surgeons' Decision-Making for Cleft Lip Surgery

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Using separate prospective cohorts of patients who have lip revision and lip repair surgery, the objective of this clinical trial is to both qualitatively and quantitatively assess how surgeons integrate the objective measures and visual aids of the Intervention with the systematic subjective assessment in order to determine decisions surgery.

Clinical Trial Description

The standard-of-care to evaluate patients for lip revision surgery relies on a subjective assessment by the surgeon of the static face. The important role of function or movement generally has been given far less consideration mainly because of the challenges faced by surgeons (e.g., the amount/quality of the tissue available to alter movement). Presently, even when surgeons do attempt to assess function, they do so in a subjective manner because there are no quantitative/visual aids to incorporate functional assessment into their treatment planning and decisions regarding lip surgery. The Intervention approach proposed here has been refined sufficiently with surgeon feedback to allow surgeons to broaden their "vista" of the patients' 'movement and form' problems. Potentially, having identified a movement/form problem(s), surgeons could contemplate what needs to be done to improve patient specific problem(s). Importantly, pilot studies demonstrated that the Intervention had a definite impact on surgeons' decisions for lip revision: Surgeons substantially, but variably, changed their problem list and treatment planning goals. Thus, a goal of this study is to collect surgical outcome data which will be used primarily to monitor adverse events but also will provide preliminary information on improvement in patient outcomes (facial form and movement) when surgeons use the Intervention. In addition, given that revision surgery is very common after the primary lip repair, it is important to understand surgeons' decision-making with the use of the Intervention, to determine surgeons' goals and expectations for primary lip repair surgery, and to understand the surgical limitations that may lead to subsequent revision surgery. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03537976
Study type	Interventional
Source	Tufts University
Contact	Carroll Ann Trotman
Phone	617-636-0846
Email	Carroll_Ann.Trotman@tufts.edu
Status	Recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	January 31, 2018
Completion date	August 31, 2025

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