Measuring quality: caries‐related emergency department visits and follow‐up among children

Abstract

These National Quality Forum endorsed measures provide valid methodologies for assessing the rate of caries-related ED visits, an important system-level outcome indicator of outpatient prevention and disease management, and the timeliness of follow-up with a dentist. There is significant variation in caries-related ED visits among state Medicaid programs, and most ED visits do not have follow-up with a dentist within 30 days.

Quality measures for dental care: A systematic review

“…Looking at the overall scores, the scores ranged from 38 to 78 out of 80 possible points. The highest scoring publications stem from the last 3 years . Appendix shows an oversight of the funding bodies and possible competing interests of the reviewed publications.…”

“…To guide decisions about which of the currently available measures to use to assess quality of oral health care, the authors recommend the measures from those publications that scored highest on the development, testing and validation of the measures. At this moment, the Dental Quality Alliance (DQA), Hummel et al, Bhardwaj et al and Neumann et al, showed the most extensive procedure to develop and/or test the quality measures.…”

“…For example, the Cosmin study could provide useful insights with respect to consistent reporting of patient‐reported health outcomes . The DQA exhibits an interesting example of testing the clinimetric properties of quality measures including validity, reliability and feasibility …”

“…15 The DQA exhibits an interesting example of testing the clinimetric properties of quality measures including validity, reliability and feasibility. [22][23][24][25][26][27] In recent years, EHRs have increasingly become amenable for purposes of quality measurement. 47 The adoption of measures based on EHRs has the potential to advance quality measurement by the automation of data collection.…”

Pediatric Adapted Liking Survey: A Novel, Feasible and Reliable Dietary Screening in Clinical Practice

“…Chronic illnesses have been targeted in the PED, including screening, brief interventions and referrals [Chandler et al, 2015;Haber et al, 2015;Herndon et al, 2017;Vaughn et al, 2012]. Adolescents and low-income children who use PEDs have been shown to have unhealthy dietary behaviors and often do not obtain primary medical or preventive dental care [Chandler et al, 2015;Wall et al, 2014].…”