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Differences in Practice in Alveolar Bone Grafting Among American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association Members.

Eric ZielinskiChiara N SantiagoGaia S SantiagoIan ZelkoRobert HlavinAkriti ChoudharyChad A Purnell
Published in: The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (2022)
The study was approved by the University of Illinois at Chicago Institutional Review Board. A de-identified 24-question online survey was distributed to surgeon members of the ACPA utilizing the REDCap tool on August 7, 2020. The survey questions consisted of multiple choice and multiple selection questions including an option to select "other" and specify the information in a blank space. Data collected included surgeon specialty, use of various alveolar bone graft surgical techniques, as well as pre and postoperative protocols. The full survey is included in online Supplemental material. Data analysis was performed in SPSS Statistics 27 (IBM Corp.). Descriptive statistics were performed, and chi-square was used to test for significant differences in survey responses between groups.
Keyphrases
  • cross sectional
  • data analysis
  • health information
  • bone mineral density
  • social media
  • primary care
  • patients undergoing
  • electronic health record
  • soft tissue
  • body composition
  • bone regeneration
  • quality improvement