A visual report from CareQuest Institute examines attitudes regarding the relationship between oral health and overall health, based on national surveys of oral health consumers and providers. Both consumers and dental providers described a lack of...
This editorial describes the 9 articles in this supplement that emphasize and support establishing and maintaining integrated health care systems that address all aspects of a person’s health, given the complex links between oral, behavioral, and systemic...
This report from CareQuest Institute provides a comprehensive overview of the bidirectional nature of oral and systemic diseases across different life phases and discusses how medical-dental integration (MDI) can improve access to care, health outcomes...
This white paper and accompanying use cases explore the integration of interprofessional education (IPE) in health care, with a particular focus on oral health.
This Consensus Statement calls for urgent action to integrate oral health into global healthcare systems, ensuring seamless data exchange, improved patient outcomes, and a stronger, more coordinated healthcare infrastructure.
More than 57 million people live in dental health professional shortage areas. This means that there are not enough dental providers to care for the community. Telehealth can be used to provide some types of dental care. Children’s Dental Services...
Regular visits to the dentist are not only good for a routine examination and cleaning, but also for the detection of oral cancer – cancer that develops in areas in and around the mouth, such as the tongue, mouth lining, lips, gums, or in the back of the...
DENVER — Pediatrician Patricia Braun and her team saw roughly 100 children at a community health clinic on a recent Monday. They gave flu shots and treatments for illnesses like ear infections. But Braun also did something most primary care doctors don't...
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Integrating electronic referral systems into clinical practices may increase use of web-accessible tobacco interventions. We report on our feasibility evaluation of using theory-driven implementation science techniques to translate an e-referral system...
BACKGROUND: Tailored, web-assisted interventions can reach many smokers. Content from other smokers (peers) through crowdsourcing could enhance relevance. PURPOSE: To evaluate whether peers can generate tailored messages encouraging other smokers to use a...
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine feasibility of testing and frequency of abnormal plasma glucose among dental patients in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. METHODS: Eligible dental patients were > or = 19 years old and had at least 1...
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is the most preventable cause of death. Although effective, Web-assisted tobacco interventions are underutilized and recruitment is challenging. Understanding who participates in Web-assisted tobacco interventions may help in...
BACKGROUND: Brief clinician delivered advice helps in tobacco cessation efforts. This study assessed the impact of our intervention on instances of advice given to dental patients during visits on tobacco use quit rates 6 months after the intervention...
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) has been increasing. Instances of patients' not having received a diagnosis have been reported widely, as have instances of poor control of DM or prediabetes among patient's who have the disease. These...
BACKGROUND: The dental visit is a unique opportunity for tobacco control. Despite evidence of effectiveness in dental settings, brief provider-delivered cessation advice is underutilized. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate an Internet-delivered intervention designed...
BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is still the leading preventable cause of death and morbidity in the U.S. Web-assisted tobacco interventions are an effective but underutilized tool in assisting smokers with quitting. The dental visit is an excellent opportunity...
BACKGROUND: An important step in integrating dental and medical care is improving understanding of the frequency and characteristics of dental practitioners who conduct health risk assessments (HRAs). METHODS: From September 2017 through July 2018, active...
BACKGROUND: Within a web-assisted tobacco intervention, we provided a function for smokers to asynchronously communicate with a trained tobacco treatment specialist (TTS). Previous studies have not attempted to isolate the effect of asynchronous...