Dentist reliability in classifying disease risk and reason for treatment

Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 158-161

  Bader, James D ^a   White, B Alex ^c   Olsen, Oralee ^c   Shugars, Daniel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dental records; Diagnosis, oral; Reliability; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; DENTIST; GROUP PRACTICE; HUMAN; MOLAR TOOTH; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PULPITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TOOTH FRACTURE;

DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DENTISTS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; GROUP PRACTICE, DENTAL; HUMANS; MOLAR, THIRD; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PULPITIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOOTH FRACTURES;

EID: 0033138563     PISSN: 00224006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.1999.tb03265.x     Document Type: Article

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