A single-item approach to screening elders for oral health assessment

Nursing Research

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 332-338

  Chia Hui Chen, Cheryl ^a   Chyun, Deborah A ^b   Li, Chung Yi ^b,c   McCorkle, Ruth ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b School of Nursing

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aged; Oral health; Screening; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH HYGIENE; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; TOOTH DISEASE;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; TOOTH DISEASES;

EID: 34548598547     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NNR.0000289504.30037.d8     Document Type: Article

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