Journal article
The accuracy of tooth loss data collected by nurses
Special care in dentistry, Vol.19(2), pp.75-78
03/1999
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1999.tb01372.x
PMID: 11833110
Abstract
This paper reports on the accuracy of tooth counts conducted in 22 subjects by 10 trained nurses as part of a large longitudinal study of a pharmacological agent. These nurses participated in a training course consisting of seminars, discussion, demonstrations, and practice examinations. Each of the nurses then counted the teeth of 22 subjects and recorded their findings independently. The counts of the nurses were compared with those of the dentists to assess the accuracy of the nurses' counts. We found that nurses and dentists were in perfect agreement for 86% of the patient counts conducted. Individual nurses' levels of agreement with dentists ranged from 73% to 100%, with pairwise kappa statistic values ranging from 0.70 to 1.00. In addition, both Pearson correlation and interclass correlation measures exceeded 0.98 for every comparison of dentist and nurse counts. The results of this study suggest that training nondental health care workers may be an accurate and low-cost way of obtaining tooth loss data and other oral health measures, particularly when oral health data are collected as part of larger, multi-disciplinary studies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The accuracy of tooth loss data collected by nurses
- Creators
- J J Warren - Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USAS M LevyJ S Hand
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Special care in dentistry, Vol.19(2), pp.75-78
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1999.tb01372.x
- PMID
- 11833110
- ISSN
- 0275-1879
- eISSN
- 1754-4505
- Grant note
- P30-DE10126 / NIDCR NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1999
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Epidemiology
- Record Identifier
- 9983917673402771
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