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  • 标题:Transition in Dental Treatment Utilization in Jammu And Kashmir, India - A 10 Year Retrospective Study
  • 作者:Aasim Farooq Shah ; Manu Batra ; A. Ishrat
  • 期刊名称:Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
  • 电子版ISSN:2091-0800
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 卷号:6
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:631-639
  • DOI:10.3126/nje.v6i4.17257
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:International Nepal Epidemiological Association (INEA)
  • 其他摘要:Background: Utilization of health services is the actual attendance by the members of the public at health care facilities to receive care. Utilization, serves as an important tool for oral health policy decision-making. The aim of the present study was to retrospectively gauge and assess the utilization pattern of the dental treatments which was given in hospital for last 10 years. Materials and Methods: This retrospective infirmary based study was carried out at Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The yearly outpatient department (OPD) records for the utilization of specific dental treatment of a total of 103963 patients were assessed retrospectively from 2014 to 2003. Trend analysis was used to assess the trend of utilization of each speciality with best fitted linear trend lines. Results: The pattern of new patients has also shown a constant rise during the study period except for 2008 and 2009. The utilization of oral surgery speciality has shown a tremendous fall from 2003 to 2014 whereas the number of patients coming to periodontics and conservative dentistry has shown an increasing pattern. Conclusion: Utilization of oral health care has long been used as an indicator of oral health related behaviour of a population. In the present study it can be conclude that the outlook of the population under study has changed from blood and vulcanite dentistry outlook and is moving towards restorative dentistry.
  • 关键词:Utilization Trend;Dentistry;Behaviour;Restorative Dentistry;Oral health.
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