Nugent Z J
Dental Health Services Research Unit, Dental School, Dundee, UK.
Int J Med Inform. 1997 Nov;47(1-2):35-7. doi: 10.1016/s1386-5056(97)00082-8.
The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) has coordinated National Health Service surveys of the dental health of school children since 1985, when Wales and parts of England were included. Scotland joined in 1987 and Northern Ireland in 1994. This series spans an interesting time in the growth of accessible technology in both statistics and medical research. The purpose of this paper is to chart the development of this data base from pen and paper via microcomputers to the Internet. The annual work now involves calibration of examiners, data collection with portable computers or by manual transcription and subsequent 'punching', paper reports passed to regional coordinators who fill in spread sheets that are passed by e-mail or through posted discs to the data coordinating centre at the Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Dundee. The data is checked; statistical analyses are undertaken; a paper is prepared for print and the data is deposited on the BASCD Web Site. Four operating systems and at least eight software packages are used to produce and distribute the survey results.
自1985年起，英国社区牙科研究协会（BASCD）就开始协调国民医疗服务体系对学童口腔健康状况的调查，当时调查范围包括威尔士和英格兰部分地区。苏格兰于1987年加入，北爱尔兰于1994年加入。这一系列调查跨越了统计学和医学研究中可获取技术发展的一段有趣时期。本文旨在梳理该数据库从纸笔记录，经微机，再到互联网的发展历程。目前的年度工作包括检查人员的校准、使用便携式计算机或通过手工转录及随后的“打孔”进行数据收集、将纸质报告交给区域协调员，区域协调员填写电子表格后通过电子邮件或邮寄光盘将其发送至邓迪大学牙科健康服务研究单位的数据协调中心。数据经过检查；进行统计分析；准备一份用于印刷的报告，并将数据存放在BASCD网站上。使用了四种操作系统和至少八个软件包来生成和发布调查结果。
