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LATERAL NECK ULTRASOUND FOR THYROID CANCER: COMPARISON OF QUALITY BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND HIGH-VOLUME TERTIARY CARE PRACTICE

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Heera Govindarajan Venguidesvarane, BDS, Bo Chen, MD, Mark Zafereo, MD, Salmaan Ahmed, MD

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

BILATERAL NECK EXPLORATION VERSUS SPECT, SPECT/CT, OR 4DCT IMAGING IN NON-LOCALIZING PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM—A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS.

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Ethan Frank, MD¹, Shannon Fujimoto, BS², Pedro De Andrade, MD¹, Jared Inman, MD¹, Alfred Simental, MD¹

¹Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center, ²School of Medicine, Loma Linda University

A PATHOLOGY PROTOCOL INCREASES LYMPH NODE YIELD IN NECK DISSECTION FOR ORAL CAVITY SQUAMOUS CELL CANCER

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Andrew J Holcomb, MD, Mollie Perryman, BA, Joseph Penn, BS, Sara Goodwin, BA, Mark Villwock, MS, Andres Bur, MD, Yelizaveta Shnayder, MD, Terance Tsue, MD, Janet Woodroof, MD, Kiran Kakarala, MD

University of Kansas Medical Center

VALIDATION OF RISK-ADJUSTED PREDICTION MODELS USING THE SPECIALTY-SPECIFIC HEAD AND NECK RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY NSQIP

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Samantha Tam, MD, MPH, Wenli Dong, MS, Ira L Margin, RN, CPHQ, David M Adelman, MD, PhD, Randal S Weber, MD, Carol M Lewis, MD, MPH

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

A PLAN OF THE DAY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES OPERATING ROOM TIME FOR HEAD AND NECK FREE FLAP RECONSTRUCTION

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Ahmed Ibrahim, MD¹, Kavindu Ndeti¹, Amy Westbrook, RN², Kevin Sykes, MPH, PhD¹, Andres Bur, MD¹, Yelizaveta Shnayder, MD¹, Terance Tsue, MD¹, Kiran Kakarala, MD¹

¹Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine, ²University of Kansas Health System

POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF MICROVASCULAR HEAD AND NECK FREE FLAPS IN A NON-INTENSIVE CARE UNIT SETTING

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Swar Vimawala, BS, Michael C Topf, MD, Tony Richa, MD, Adam Luginbuhl, MD, Joseph M Curry, MD, David M Cognetti, MD, Richard A Goldman, MD

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL TOXICITY IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER SURVIVORS AS A FRAMEWORK FOR SHARED DECISIONS AND AVOIDANCE OF LOW-VALUE CARE

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Leila J Mady, MD, PhD, MPH¹, Maryanna S Owoc, BS¹, Kate Meng Zhao², Lingyun Lyu, MS³, Michael Corcoran², Shyamal D Peddada, PhD³, Teresa Hagan Thomas, PhD, RN⁴, Lindsay M Sabik, PhD⁵, Marci L Nilsen, PhD, RN, CHPN⁴, Jonas T Johnson, MD¹

¹University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, ²UPMC Insurance Services Strategic Analysis of Clinical Affairs, ³University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, ⁴University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, ⁵University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute

THE EFFECT OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TUMOR BOARD MEETINGS ON TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH HEAD AND NECK CANCER

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Samantha Tam, MD, MPH¹, Derek A Haas, MBA², Moran Amit, MD, PhD³, Michael E Porter, PhD⁴, Randal S Weber, MD¹, Ehab Y Hanna, MD¹

¹University of MD Anderson Cancer Center, ²Avant-Garde Health, ³Houston Methodist Hospital, ⁴Harvard Business School

A PARTIALLY OBSERVED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS MODEL FOR HEAD AND NECK CANCER SURVEILLANCE

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Temitayo Ajayi¹, Sweet Ping Ng², Andrew Schaefer¹, Courtney Pollard², Houda Bahig², David Rosenthal², G Gunn², Steven Frank², Jack Phan², William Morrison², Jason Johnson², Mona Kamal², Abdallah Mohamed², Erich Sturgis², Adam Garden², Clifton Fuller²

¹Rice University, ²MD Anderson

REDUCED ACCESS TO CARE AMONG HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS

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Sean T Massa, MD, Ryan S Jackson, MD, Patrik Pipkorn, MD, Jose P Zevallos, MD, MPH

Washington University