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J Laryngol Otol ; 133(10): 884-888, 2019 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31475640

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: There has been little reported on the transoral reconstructive options following salvage transoral robotic surgery. This paper describes the facial artery musculomucosal flap as a method to introduce vascularised tissue to a previously irradiated resection bed. METHODS: A facial artery musculomucosal flap was used to reconstruct the lateral pharyngeal wall in 13 patients undergoing salvage transoral robotic surgery for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Outcomes recorded include flap and donor site complications, length of stay, and swallowing and speech outcomes. RESULTS: There were no immediate or late flap complications, or cases of delayed wound healing in this series. There were two facial artery musculomucosal related complications requiring surgical management: one bleed from the facial artery musculomucosal donor site and one minor surgical revision. Healing of the flap onto the resection bed was successful in all cases. CONCLUSION: The facial artery musculomucosal flap provides a suitable transoral local flap option for selected patients undergoing salvage transoral robotic surgery for oropharyngeal malignancies.

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Stud Health Technol Inform ; 52 Pt 2: 1197-200, 1998.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10384649

ABSTRACT

Positive outcomes come to health care organizations that are doing the right things well, that is, their organizational strategies are aligned with their environments and they are executing those strategies well. Likewise, the informatics strategies must also be aligned with the organization's strategies. Without this congruence, informatics does not have the potential to have a substantial positive impact on the overall organizational outcomes. The execution of the informatics strategies must also be exemplary; however, the change processes required for achieving the desired informatics and organizational outcome goals are demanding and complicated. Implementing them in extremely complex organizations that operate on a 7-day by 24 hour basis is not easy. However, we are constantly learning more about complex change processes and the ways we can better manage them to improve our needed informatics outcomes. The challenge is to build upon the existing research base to more us even further ahead.


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Medical Informatics/organization & administration , Organizational Innovation , Humans , Models, Organizational , Organizational Culture , Social Sciences
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J Am Med Inform Assoc ; 4(2): 79-93, 1997.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9067874

ABSTRACT

People and organizational issues are critical in both implementing medical informatics systems and in dealing with the altered organizations that new systems often create. The people and organizational issues area--like medical informatics itself--is a blend of many disciplines. The academic disciplines of psychology, sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, organizational behavior and organizational development, management, and cognitive sciences are rich with research with significant potential to ease the introduction and on-going use of information technology in today's complex health systems. These academic areas contribute research data and core information for better understanding of such issues as the importance of and processes for creating future direction; managing a complex change process; effective strategies for involving individuals and groups in the informatics effort; and effectively managing the altered organization. This article reviews the behavioral and business referent disciplines that can potentially contribute to improved implementations and on-going management of change in the medical informatics arena.


Subject(s)
Group Processes , Medical Informatics/organization & administration , Organizational Innovation , Attitude to Computers , Humans , Motivation , Organizational Culture
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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7950004

ABSTRACT

A survey instrument was developed based on a model of the substantive factors influencing the adoption of Information Technology (IT) enabled innovations by physicians. The survey was given to all faculty and residents in a Primary Care teaching institution. Computerized literature searching was the IT innovation studied. The results support the role of the perceived ease of use and the perceived usefulness of an innovation as well as the intent to use an innovation as factors important for implementation. The model and survey instruments developed show significant potential to enhance our understanding of the process of implementing IT innovations such that Physicians will adopt them.


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Attitude to Computers , Diffusion of Innovation , Physicians, Family , Surveys and Questionnaires , Data Collection , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Information Storage and Retrieval , Models, Theoretical , Physicians, Family/psychology
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