Shah Aasim Farooq, Batra Manu, Ishrat A
Registrar, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College and Hospital Shreen Bagh, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. 190010.
Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, UCMS College of Dental Surgery Bhairahawa, Nepal.
Nepal J Epidemiol. 2016 Dec 31;6(4):631-639. doi: 10.3126/nje.v6i4.17257. eCollection 2016 Dec.
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.
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.
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.
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. .
卫生服务的利用是公众实际前往医疗机构接受护理的情况。利用情况是口腔健康政策决策的重要工具。本研究的目的是回顾性地评估和分析过去10年在医院接受的牙科治疗的利用模式。
这项基于医院的回顾性研究在印度查谟和克什米尔邦斯利那加的谢里·克什米尔医学科学研究所(SKIMS)进行。对2014年至2003年期间总共103963名患者的特定牙科治疗利用情况的年度门诊记录进行了回顾性评估。使用趋势分析和最佳拟合线性趋势线来评估各专科的利用趋势。
除2008年和2009年外,新患者数量在研究期间也呈持续上升趋势。口腔外科专科的利用情况在2003年至2014年期间大幅下降,而前来牙周病科和保守牙科的患者数量呈上升趋势。
长期以来,口腔卫生保健的利用情况一直被用作衡量人群口腔健康相关行为的指标。在本研究中,可以得出结论,所研究人群的观念已从血液和硫化橡胶牙科观念转变为修复牙科观念。