Purpose: The purpose of this report was to establish baseline data on 10 oral health
performance indicators over 5 fiscal years (2007 to 2008 through 2011 to 2012) for an Iowa …

Purpose: The purpose of this report was to establish baseline data on 10 oral health
performance indicators over 5 fiscal years (2007 to 2008 through 2011 to 2012) for an Iowa …

Background There is no standard, nonproprietary method for providing national benchmarks
of dental care quality as described by patients. The purpose of this research was to develop …

Low-income residents of the Central Valley face limited access to oral health care due to
barriers, including a shortage of dental health professionals, a maldistribution of services …

Abstract Objective Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) dental clinics are a major
component of the dental safety net system, providing care to 3.75 million patients annually …

Objective: Standardized measures to assess clinical aspects of the performance of managed
dental care plans are not available. This project sought to develop and evaluate measures …

Changing regulatory priorities set forth by the Affordable Care Act and recent activities of the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services clearly prioritize the need to improve the quality …

Despite efforts that increased dental visits at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) by
65 percent between 2007 and 2014, only 21 percent of FQHC patients received dental …

ABSTRACT Unlabelled Image Background The authors compare patterns of oral health care
reported by the Washington Dental Service, or WDS, Seattle, in 1993 and 1999 to assess …

ECENTLY, the American Dental As-sociation gained membership on the Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH), the primary nongovernmental organization in the …