Community Dental Health

Cover Date: December 2006
Print ISSN: 0265 539X
Electronic ISSN
Vol: 23
Issue: 4

Articles from this issue

Title	Page Start	Page End
Editorial - Presentations and conferences: can we measure their value?	194	196
Caries prevalence in 12-year-old children from Germany. Results of the 2004 national survey	197	202
The relationship between prevalence and incidence of dental caries. Some observational consequences.	203	208
Characteristics attributed to individuals with dental ﬂuorosis	209	216
DIAGNOdent - an adjunctive diagnostic method for caries diagnosis in epidemiology	217	221
Prevalence and factors associated with traumatic dental injuries (TDI) to anterior teeth of 11-13 year old Thai children	222	227
Performance indicators used to assess the quality of primary dental care	228	235
A survey of school dental screening practise in community dental services of England and Wales in 2003	236	238
The prevalence and pattern of hypodontia of the permanent teeth and crown size and shape deformity affecting upper lateral incisors in a sample of Jordanian dental patients.	239	243
Relationship between dental caries experience (DMFS) and dental ﬂuorosis in 12-year-old Puerto Ricans.	244	250
Prevalence of dental caries in obese and normal-weight Brazilian adolescents attending state and private schools.	251	253
Abstracts - Papers presented at the BASCD Spring Presidential meeting in Cambridge, UK, March 2006	254	254

Performance indicators used to assess the quality of primary dental care

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Authors

D.M. Delnoij
G.T. Asbroek
N. Klazinga
G.Z. González

Abstract

An appropriate quality of medical care including dental care should be an objective of every government that aims to improve the oral health of its population. Objectives: To determine performance indicators that could be used to assess the quality of primary dental care at different levels of a health care system, the sources for data collection and ﬁnally, the dimensions of quality measured by these indicators. Method: An explorative study of the international literature was conducted using medical databases, journals and books, and ofﬁcial websites of organisations and associations. Results: This resulted in a set of 57 indicators, which were classiﬁed into the following dimensions for each intended user group: For patients: health outcomes and subjective indicators; for professionals: their performance and the rates of success, failure and complications; for health care system managers and policymakers: their resources, ﬁnances and health care utilisation. Conclusion: A set of 57 performance indicators were identiﬁed to assess the quality of primary dental care at the levels of patients, professionals and the health care system. These indicators could be used by managers and decision-makers at any level of the health care system according to the characteristics of the services.

Key words: dental care, dentistry, indicators, management, performance indicators, performance measures, quality.

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