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Health services research.

H L Bailit1

  • 1Health Policy and Primary and Primary Care Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, USA. bailit@nso1.uchc.edu

Advances in Dental Research
|May 6, 2004
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Collecting primary dental data is challenging due to non-standardized records and high costs. A new simplified dental visit encounter system aims to improve data collection for underserved populations.

Area of Science:

  • Dental Public Health
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Significant barriers hinder the collection of population-based dental services data, including non-standardized dental record systems, limited use of electronic health records, and the high cost of abstracting paper records.
  • Secondary data from insurance claims have limitations, as they often lack diagnostic information and are difficult to aggregate from multiple carriers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a simplified dental visit encounter system for collecting primary dental data.
  • To assess the impact of community-based dental education programs on dental care for underserved populations.

Main Methods:

  • A national demonstration project involving senior dental students and residents from 15 dental schools.
  • Utilized computers or scannable paper forms at approximately 200-300 community delivery sites.

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  • Collected basic patient demographic and service data for several hundred thousand patient visits.

    • Main Results:

    • A simplified dental visit encounter system was successfully developed and implemented.
    • The system facilitates the collection of essential demographic and service data from a large number of patient visits across diverse community settings.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed simplified system offers a viable solution for improving dental data collection, particularly for underserved populations.
    • Standardized data collection formats and regional data availability are crucial for future research value as electronic records become more prevalent.