Restorative treatment decisions from bitewing radiographs - Performance of dental epidemiologists and general dental practitioners

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-105

  Downer, Martin C ^a   Kay, Elizabeth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY DENTAL HOSPITAL OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bitewing radiological interpretation; Health gain; Likelihood ratios; Observer variation; Sensitivity; Specificity; Treatment decisions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MOLAR TOOTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREMOLAR TOOTH; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

BICUSPID; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE, DENTAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLAR; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOGRAPHY, BITEWING; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030119152     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1996.tb00823.x     Document Type: Article

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