Sengupta Nandini, Nanavati Sonal, Cericola Maria, Simon Lisa
Nandini Sengupta, Sonal Nanavati, and Maria Cericola are with The Dimock Center, Roxbury, MA. Lisa Simon is with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Am J Public Health. 2017 Oct;107(10):1627-1629. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303984. Epub 2017 Aug 17.
We have integrated preventive oral health measures into preventive care visits for children at a federally qualified health center in Boston, Massachusetts. The program, started in 2015, covers 3400 children and has increased universal caries risk screening in primary care to 85%, fluoride varnish application rates to 80%, and referrals to a dental home to 35%. We accomplished this by minimizing pressures on providers' workflow, empowering medical assistants to lead the initiative, and utilizing data-driven improvement strategies, alongside colocated coordinated care.
我们已将预防性口腔健康措施纳入马萨诸塞州波士顿一家联邦合格健康中心为儿童提供的预防性保健服务中。该项目始于2015年,覆盖3400名儿童,将初级保健中的普遍龋齿风险筛查率提高到了85%,氟化物涂漆应用率提高到了80%,转介至牙科诊所的比例提高到了35%。我们通过尽量减少对医护人员工作流程的压力、授权医疗助理主导该项目以及利用数据驱动的改进策略,同时结合同地协调护理来实现了这一目标。