Geographic variations in dental services provided to older adults in Ontario, Canada

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 275-282

  Locker, David ^a   Clarke, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dental services; Geographic variation; Older adults; Oral health outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033173112     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1999.tb02021.x     Document Type: Article

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