The importance of productivity in estimating need for dentists

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1399-1404

  Beazoglou, Tryfon ^a   Heffley, Dennis ^b   Brown, L Jackson ^c   Bailit, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL FACILITY; DENTAL TECHNOLOGY; DENTIST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DENTAL AUXILIARIES; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DENTAL OFFICES; DENTISTS; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY, DENTAL; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036778283     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2002.0056     Document Type: Article

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