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Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web--a novel tool to evaluate patient outcomes
Serryth Colbert1, Peter A Brennan, Ginette Phippen
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, United Kingdom.
The Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web (MIAOW) visually displays surgical results. This tool, new to our specialty, can improve reporting for cleft surgery and other procedures.
Area of Science:
- Medical research
- Surgical outcomes analysis
- Data visualization
Background:
- The Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web (MIAOW) is a visual tool for presenting outcomes.
- MIAOW is established in industry, finance, and sports.
- Its application in specialized medical fields, like cleft surgery, is not widely documented.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce the Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web (MIAOW) for displaying surgical outcomes.
- To demonstrate the utility of MIAOW in cleft surgery.
- To highlight the potential applicability of MIAOW in other surgical specialties.
Main Methods:
- Utilized the Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web (MIAOW) as a pictorial representation.
- Applied MIAOW to analyze and display outcomes in cleft surgery.
- Explored the adaptability of MIAOW for other surgical areas.
Main Results:
- Successfully employed MIAOW to represent multiple audit outcomes for patients.
- Demonstrated the visual effectiveness of MIAOW in the context of cleft surgery.
- Confirmed MIAOW's potential for visualizing outcomes in orthognathic surgery and head and neck oncology.
Conclusions:
- The Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web (MIAOW) offers a novel method for presenting surgical outcomes.
- MIAOW can be effectively applied to cleft surgery and potentially other surgical disciplines.
- This visual tool enhances the reporting of surgical results.
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