# Targeting Surgeons' Decision Making for Lip Revision Surgery

> **NIH NIH U01** · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · 2020 · $76,640

## Abstract

Principal Investigator: Carroll Ann Trotman, BDS, MA, MS
NIDCR Protocol Number: 15-069-E/ NIDCR Grant Number: U01 DE024503
Targeting Surgeons’ Decision-Making for Cleft Lip Surgery
 PROTOCOL SUMMARY
This study includes: (1) A group of surgeon-raters who will review images and quantitative information
of patients with Cleft Lip and Palate (CL/P); and (2) Two prospective groups/cohorts of patients with
cleft lip/palate (CL/P) – one cohort recommended to have secondary lip revision surgery and another
slated to have primary lip repair surgery.
The study will assign surgeon-raters to evaluate patients who are scheduled to be treated at another
participating study site. Each surgeon-rater will be assigned to hypothetically assess several patients
from both cohorts for surgery. Surgeon-raters will use a novel pre-surgical planning system for this
evaluation – the Systematic Assessment for Facial Surgery (SAFS) Intervention. Subsequent to each SAFS,
surgeon-raters will participate in an In-depth interview (IDI), designed to illuminate the surgeon-raters’
decision making process. This study will determine how the SAFS Intervention affects surgeons’
decision-making and treatment plans for surgery. Objectives:
The Primary objectives of this study are:
 • To qualitatively assess how surgeon-raters integrate the SAFS’s objective measures and visual aids
 with the SAFS’s systematic subjective assessment in the decision-making process for the clinical
 surgical procedures of lip revision.
 • To qualitatively assess how surgeon-raters integrate the SAFS’s objective measures and visual aids
 with the SAFS’s systematic subjective assessment in the decision-making process for the clinical
 surgical procedures of primary lip repair.
The secondary objectives of this study are:
 • To quantitatively assess the extent to which the SAFS changes surgeon-raters’ problem list and
 treatment planning goals for lip revision.
• To quantitatively assess the extent to which the SAFS changes surgeon-raters’ problem list and
 treatment planning goals for primary lip repair.
• To quantitatively assess the extent to which the SAFS changes surgeon-raters’ problem list and
 treatment planning goals for lip revision as a function of surgical expertise.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10037998
- **Project number:** 3U01DE024503-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON
- **Principal Investigator:** CARROLL ANN TROTMAN
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $76,640
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2015-09-03 → 2021-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10037998

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10037998, Targeting Surgeons' Decision Making for Lip Revision Surgery (3U01DE024503-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10037998. Licensed CC0.

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