Jones J A
Dental Service, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans' Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA.
Community Dent Health. 1998 Mar;15(1):13-8.
The purpose of this paper is to present potential uses of existing oral-specific quality of life (OQOL) instruments in geriatric dentistry.
Selected existing OQOL instruments were reviewed. Three examples of how such instruments have or could be used in geriatric dentistry are presented.
Nine OQOL instruments are briefly reviewed. The potential uses in geriatric dentistry include population applications and uses with individuals for political, theoretical and practical reasons. Practical uses include identification of persons needing treatment, assessing oral health needs in populations and estimating resources required to meet those needs, as endpoints in clinical trials and as measures of the impact of care provided.
The ultimate value of OQOL measures will be measured by their usefulness in improving care of patients. The development of streamlined instruments and a core instrument which can be used in multiple populations and serve as a baseline to which other measures are added is recommended.
本文旨在介绍现有口腔特异性生活质量（OQOL）工具在老年牙科学中的潜在用途。
对选定的现有OQOL工具进行综述。介绍了此类工具在老年牙科学中已经或可能被使用的三个例子。
简要回顾了九种OQOL工具。在老年牙科学中的潜在用途包括群体应用以及因政治、理论和实际原因用于个体。实际用途包括识别需要治疗的人群、评估群体的口腔健康需求以及估计满足这些需求所需的资源，作为临床试验的终点以及所提供护理影响的衡量指标。
OQOL测量的最终价值将通过其在改善患者护理方面的有用性来衡量。建议开发简化工具和核心工具，该核心工具可用于多种人群，并作为添加其他测量指标的基线。
