Woodward G L, Csima A, Leake J L, Ryding W H, Main P A
Community Dental Health Services Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Community Dent Health. 1995 Sep;12(3):155-60.
For the purposes of planning and evaluation, knowing the time-costs associated with each dental procedure carried out in a publicly funded dental programme is very helpful. This knowledge, along with the expected or known benefits, also allows researchers to assess the efficacy of a dental procedure. However, only a few estimates of dental procedure times exist in the literature, and most of these focus on restorative treatments. The North York Public Health Department operates a school-based public dental programme, where each dental procedure carried out by a dentist or hygienist is entered into a dental management information system database, along with the date of the procedure and the hours worked by the provider on that date. Using these data and multiple regression analyses it was possible to estimate the average time required to carry out the most common procedures in North York's dental programme. These estimates were found to be similar to estimates published in the dental literature and very similar to estimates of the Ontario Dental Association. Thus, this method of calculating procedure times appears valid and may be very useful to managers of public dental programmes and public dental health researchers.
为了进行规划和评估，了解公共资助牙科项目中每项牙科治疗所涉及的时间成本非常有帮助。这些信息，连同预期或已知的益处，还能让研究人员评估牙科治疗的效果。然而，文献中关于牙科治疗时间的估计很少，而且其中大部分集中在修复性治疗上。北约克公共卫生部门运营着一个基于学校的公共牙科项目，牙医或口腔保健员进行的每项牙科治疗都会被录入牙科管理信息系统数据库，同时记录治疗日期以及提供者当日的工作时长。利用这些数据和多元回归分析，得以估算出北约克牙科项目中最常见治疗所需的平均时间。这些估计结果与牙科文献中公布的估计值相似，与安大略省牙科协会的估计值非常接近。因此，这种计算治疗时间的方法似乎是有效的，可能对公共牙科项目的管理人员和公共牙科健康研究人员非常有用。
