Periodontal examination and screening.

Periodontal screening is an important tool in dental practice, and the BPE system is recommended. Clinically, visual examination should identify inflammatory change, recession and enlargement. However, detailed periodontal charting is required in all patients with significant levels of disease.

Test-Retest Reliability of Self-Reported Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Among at-Risk Adolescents.

Adolescents often engage in behaviors such as substance use and risky sexual activity that can lead to negative health and psychological consequences for themselves and others. Accurate measurement of these behaviors in surveys is challenging given that the behaviors are often viewed as undesirable and/or are illegal, so it is important to test the psychometric properties of instruments used to assess adolescent risk behaviors. The current study aimed to assess the test-retest reliability of a widely used measure of youth risk-taking behavior, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

DEFINING THE MEDICAL RECORD: RELATIONSHIPS OF THE LEGAL MEDICAL RECORD, THE DESIGNATED RECORD SET, AND THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD.

Not so long ago, defining the "medical record" was simple. It was the paper chart-volume upon volume that captured the serial, dutifully recorded events of a person's health care at a hospital or physician's office. Entries were typically handwritten, dated and timed, and signed in ink with title (i.

Applying the PAI Treatment Process Index to PAI-As Completed by Adolescents in a Residential Program.

The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) Treatment Process Index (TPI) is a measure of treatment amenability based on an index of factors related to poor treatment outcomes (e.g., hostility, lack of social support, and poor impulse control).