Mitropoulos C M, Lennon M A, Worthington H V
Department of Oral Health and Development, University of Liverpool School of Dentistry, UK.
Community Dent Health. 1990 Jun;7(2):179-87.
Representative examiners from all regions in England and examiners from Wales and Scotland took part in a national calibration exercise conducted in Manchester for The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD). Each dentist examined the same group of thirty-three 5-year-old and thirty 14-year-old children independently, and they were asked to examine the children by the same method as that used within that Region when conducting the annual BASCD surveys. Comparisons of inter-examiner differences revealed that in the examination of 5-year-old children diagnoses were not significantly different for 14 out of the 16 Regional examiners. Differences in the conventions applied in the case of missing teeth and 'arrested caries' were found and are discussed. There were no significant differences in the diagnoses for the DMFT for the 14-year-old children amongst all 16 Regional examiners. The calibration exercise allowed a close examination of the application of the BASCD criteria in the field.
来自英格兰所有地区的代表考官以及威尔士和苏格兰的考官参加了在曼彻斯特为英国社区牙科研究协会（BASCD）举办的全国校准活动。每位牙医独立检查了同一组33名5岁儿童和30名14岁儿童，并被要求按照该地区在进行年度BASCD调查时使用的相同方法对儿童进行检查。考官间差异的比较显示，在对5岁儿童的检查中，16名地区考官中有14名的诊断没有显著差异。发现并讨论了在牙齿缺失和“静止龋”情况下应用的标准差异。在所有16名地区考官中，对14岁儿童的DMFT诊断没有显著差异。校准活动使得能够在实地仔细检查BASCD标准的应用情况。
