Provision of mouth-care in long-term care facilities: An educational trial

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-34

  MacEntee, M I ^a   Wyatt, C C L ^a   Beattie, B L ^a   Paterson, B ^a,b   Levy Milne, R ^a   McCandless, L ^a   Kazanjian, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Care aides; Clinical trial; Dentistry; Educational methods in health care; Long term care; Nutrition; Oral hygiene

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CAREGIVER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALNUTRITION; MANPOWER; MASTICATION; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIODONTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COUNSELING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALNUTRITION; MASTICATION; NURSES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; ORAL HYGIENE INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIODONTAL INDEX; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 33846445660     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2007.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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