Birn B, Ellegaard B
Skole for Klinikassistenter og Tandplejere, Arhus.
Tandlaegebladet. 1990 Oct;94(14):553-7.
Questionnaires were sent to 22 dental practitioners. Each dentist was sent two types of questionnaires, one to be completed by the hygienist and the other one by the patients. The sampling was done by selecting at random approximately every sixth clinic employing a dental hygienist. Of 1100 questionnaires 710 were completed and returned. The investigation illustrates the patients opinion on different aspects of the dental hygienist's technical and social skills and of the cost of care. There was an overwhelming consumer satisfaction regarding the quality, as well as the cost, of dental care performed by a hygienist. Therefore, a broad use of well qualified dental hygienists as an auxilliary to a dentist is one way to lower the cost of dental health care in the future.
问卷被寄给了22位牙科医生。每位牙医收到两种类型的问卷，一种由口腔保健员填写，另一种由患者填写。抽样是通过随机选择大约每六家雇佣口腔保健员的诊所来进行的。在1100份问卷中，710份被填写并返还。该调查阐明了患者对口腔保健员技术和社交技能以及护理费用不同方面的看法。对于口腔保健员提供的牙齿护理的质量和费用，消费者满意度极高。因此，广泛使用资质良好的口腔保健员作为牙医的助手是未来降低牙齿保健成本的一种方式。
