OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the multidisciplinary approach to the management of @entity10107 ( @entity10107 ), which combines @entity1 education and behavioral intervention in the same session that @entity10107 is diagnosed, provides long-term therapeutic benefits. METHODS: Chart review and telephone interviews of @entity1 treated for @entity10107 at The @entity1 's Hospital of Philadelphia were performed in this retrospective nonrandomized study. All forty @entity1 diagnosed with @entity10107 from October 2007 to April 2009 were included. @entity1 were evaluated with a multidisciplinary team approach, including speech therapy assessment, otolaryngology exam and flexible laryngoscopy. @entity1 with @entity10107 were educated about their condition and instructed about breathing techniques in the same session. RESULTS: Twenty-two @entity1 were available for a phone interview. Mean age of @entity1 was 13.4    3.0 years. Sixteen @entity1 were female. Mean number of clinic visits was 1.3    0.8. Average time between phone interview and first clinical encounter was 14.0    7.2 months. Compliance rate to demonstrate breathing exercises was 90.9%. Nineteen out of 22 @entity1 (86.4%) reported improvement of their symptoms in frequency and/or severity. Six @entity1 (27.3%) sought additional medical advice related to their respiratory symptoms. Twenty-one @entity1 (95.5%) were able to maintain or increase their level of physical activity following clinic visit. CONCLUSION: Combining the diagnostic encounter with multidisciplinary behavioral intervention in a single visit is an efficacious approach for the long-term management of @entity10107 in the pediatric population.

Multidisciplinary approach to XXXX diagnosis and treatment in one session: a single institutional outcome study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'Children', 'patient'] @entity10107 :: ('MESH:D064706', 'Disease') :: ['VCD', 'vocal cord dysfunction']
@entity10107 :: (MESH:D064706,Disease) :: ['vocal cord dysfunction']
