Buj-Acosta Cindy, Paredes-Gallardo Vanessa, Montiel-Company José María, Albaladejo Alberto, Bellot-Arcís Carlos
Orthodontics Teaching Unit, Department of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Preventive Teaching Unit, Department of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
PLoS One. 2017 Jun 1;12(6):e0178497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178497. eCollection 2017.
Among the various indices developed for measuring the results of treatment in patients born with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP), the GOSLON Yardstick index is the most widely used to assess the efficacy of treatment and treatment outcomes, which in UCLP cases are closely linked to jaw growth. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review to validate the predictability of growth using the GOSLON Yardstick in patients born with UCLP. A systematic literature review was conducted in four Internet databases: Medline, Cochrane Library, Scopus and Embase, complemented by a manual search and a further search in the databases of the leading journals that focus on this topic. An electronic search was also conducted among grey literature. The search identified a total of 131 articles. Duplicated articles were excluded and after reading titles and abstracts, any articles not related to the research objective were excluded, leaving a total of 21 texts. After reading the complete text, only three articles fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The results showed a predictive validity of between 42.2% and 64.7%, which points to a lack of evidence in the literature for the predictive validity of the GOSLON Yardstick index used in children born with UCLP.
在为评估单侧唇腭裂（UCLP）患儿治疗效果而制定的各种指标中，GOSLON Yardstick指数是评估治疗效果和治疗结果最广泛使用的指标，在UCLP病例中，这些结果与颌骨生长密切相关。本研究的目的是进行一项系统评价，以验证使用GOSLON Yardstick对UCLP患儿生长的预测性。在四个互联网数据库（Medline、Cochrane图书馆、Scopus和Embase）中进行了系统的文献综述，并辅以手动检索以及在专注于该主题的主要期刊数据库中进行进一步检索。还在灰色文献中进行了电子检索。检索共识别出131篇文章。排除重复文章，阅读标题和摘要后，排除任何与研究目标无关的文章，最终剩下21篇文献。阅读全文后，只有3篇文章符合纳入标准。结果显示预测效度在42.2%至64.7%之间，这表明文献中缺乏证据支持在UCLP患儿中使用GOSLON Yardstick指数的预测效度。
