The clinical and economic impact of a sustained program in global plastic surgery: Valuing cleft care in resource-poor settings

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hughes, Christopher D ^a,b   Babigian, Alan ^b   McCormack, Susan ^c   Alkire, Blake C ^d   Wong, Anselm ^e   Pap, Stephen A ^f   Vincent, Jeffrey R ^c   Meara, John G ^g   Castiglione, Charles ^h   Silverman, Richard ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h St Elizabeth's Medical Center   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, PLASTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863465485     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318254b2a2     Document Type: Article

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