DeFriese G H, Konrad T R
J Public Health Dent. 1981 Winter;41(1):33-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.1981.tb01068.x.
The North Carolina Dental Manpower Study undertook to use epidemiological data on dental disease, data on practice productivity, and estimates of treatment needs to arrive at more useful measures of dental manpower requirements on a statewide and substate regional basis. As in all attempts to plan for health manpower, the North Carolina study relied upon a measure of subjective judgment pertaining to the treatment/services required to deal with certain dental conditions. These judgments, however, were representative of the conventional standards of practice in North Carolina at the time of the study. Though certain important factors necessary to a complete assessment of dental manpower requirements were not directly measured in the study (e.g., consumer demand), estimates of the volume increase in dental-office practice-productivity were derived for the major categories of dental procedures and conditions. In North Carolina this technic is thought to represent a more meaningful approach to dental manpower planning than the conventional manpower-to-population ratio.
北卡罗来纳州牙科人力研究旨在利用有关牙科疾病的流行病学数据、执业生产率数据以及治疗需求估计，以便在全州和州以下区域层面得出更有用的牙科人力需求衡量标准。与所有卫生人力规划尝试一样，北卡罗来纳州的研究依赖于对处理某些牙科病症所需治疗/服务的主观判断。然而，这些判断代表了研究时北卡罗来纳州的传统执业标准。尽管该研究未直接测量全面评估牙科人力需求所需的某些重要因素（例如消费者需求），但针对主要类别的牙科程序和病症得出了牙科诊所执业生产率的增长估计。在北卡罗来纳州，这种方法被认为比传统的人力与人口比率更有意义，是牙科人力规划的一种方法。
