Nalliah R P, Allareddy V, Allareddy V
Department of Global Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Department of Paediatric Critical Care, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 441065, United States.
Br Dent J. 2014 Apr;216(7):391-2. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.245.
Few dentists play integrated roles within hospital settings and few hospital emergency rooms have dentists. Existing research shows that only 67% of ER visits for dental problems are managed appropriately. Every year Americans die in hospital after being admitted because of dental disease and a recent study found that 20 people died after such hospitalisations in the United States in 2008. Authors of the current correspondence have conducted extensive research on characteristics of emergency room visits and hospitalisations due to various dental conditions using a nationwide dataset for the United States. This opinion article is intended to provoke discussion about the restructuring of hospitals to integrate oral health professionals into the hospital team.
很少有牙医在医院环境中发挥综合作用，而且很少有医院急诊室配备牙医。现有研究表明，因牙齿问题前往急诊室就诊的患者中，只有67%得到了妥善处理。每年都有美国人因牙病入院后在医院死亡，最近一项研究发现，2008年美国有20人在这类住院治疗后死亡。本文的作者利用美国全国性数据集，对因各种牙齿疾病前往急诊室就诊和住院治疗的特征进行了广泛研究。这篇观点文章旨在引发关于医院结构调整的讨论，以便将口腔健康专业人员纳入医院团队。
