Emergency and urgent dental visits among Medicaid enrollees from 2013 to 2017.

Background: Better understanding of the frequency of dental emergencies and the procedures performed during those emergency visits can help providers, insurers, and policymakers understand workforce and care provision needs.

Methods: Procedures performed at an emergency dental encounter and in the encounter following that encounter are assessed. Emergency dental encounters are those with a CDT code of D0140, D0160, or D0170.

MORE Care: an evaluation of an interprofessional oral health quality improvement initiative.

Objective: This evaluation assesses the Medical Oral Expanded Care (MORE Care) initiative in four states that focused on oral health integration into primary care practices located in dental shortage areas.

Methods: This analysis is conducted using self-reported primary data collected from each of the participating MORE Care clinics in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Oregon. Three measures: the percentage of pediatric patients with a) fluoride varnish applied, b) self-management goals reviewed, and c) risk assessed, were evaluated to compare the impact and timing of change tactics on participating teams.

Understanding value in oral health: the oral health value-based care symposium.

Objective: There are both opportunities and challenges with the implementation of oral health value-based care (OHVBC). To tackle concerns and advance conversation, a symposium was convened with subject matter experts to develop a gap analysis and capture insights into professional readiness for value-based care design.

Methods: The symposium was convened as a private event for 46 participants over the course of one and a half days in December 2019.

Predictors of Health-Care Utilization Among Children 6-59 Months of Age in Zambézia Province, Mozambique.

Globally, approximately 5.9 million children under 5 years of age died in 2015, a reduction of over 50% since 1990. Millennium Development Goal 4 established the goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015.