Awareness of Oral Disorders Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Spaniards.

Oral status has a clear impact on systemic health, a key component of successful aging. Awareness of oral disorders permits early diagnoses and treatments. This study investigates oral disorders awareness among community-dwelling elders.

Reporting Guidelines for Community-Based Participatory Research Did Not Improve the Reporting Quality of Published Studies: A Systematic Review of Studies on Smoking Cessation.

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a 2010 community-based participatory research (CBPR) reporting guideline on the quality of reporting a CBPR on smoking cessation. We searched the MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register for Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), PsycINFO, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases and included articles published up to December 2019 (PROSPERO: CRD42019111668). We assessed reporting quality using the 13-item checklist.

Addressing gaps in transversal educational contents in undergraduate dental education. The audio-visual 'pill of knowledge' approach.

Introduction: Training on impression disinfection is often limited to brief explanations in the clinic. This investigation assessed knowledge on this topic amongst clinical students in our university, produced a pill of knowledge to suit their needs, and evaluated its impact and acceptance.

Material And Methods: A pre-post study was designed to identify knowledge gaps using an anonymous, voluntary self-applied questionnaire before and after watching an audio-visual clip (pill of knowledge).

Periodontal awareness and what it actually means: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To assess periodontal awareness among laypersons, to characterize the very aware of periodontitis and to disclose whether high awareness implies sufficient periodontal knowledge.

Subjects And Methods: Cross-sectional study on laypersons randomly selected by quota sampling from March 2015 to June 2016. The questionnaire of periodontal awareness included aspects of aetiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, related risks, prevention, treatment and related attitudes.

Lessons Learned from an Advanced Access Trial Within a Canadian Armed Forces Primary Care Clinic.

Accessibility is a key element of an effective primary care system. Literature has outlined that primary care practices have successfully employed an advanced access scheduler to improve accessibility to booked appointments and consequently enhance patient experience and outcomes. In 2015, a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) primary care facility in Ottawa trialed an advanced access scheduler.

Psychiatric Consultation in Community Clinics: A Decade of Experience in the Community Clinics in Jerusalem.

Introduction: A consultation model between primary care physicians and psychiatrists that has been in operation for 12 years in the Jerusalem district of the Clalit Health Services in Israel is evaluated. In this model psychiatrists provide consultations twice a month at the primary care clinic. All patients are referred by their family physicians.

Impact of the systematic use of the informed consent form at public dental care units in Galicia (Spain).

Aim: To ascertain the impact of routine application of the informed consent form at the primary dental care units of the Galician Health Service.

Study Design: Non random selection of consecutive patients seeking tooth extraction between 9 January and 7 March 2007 at the dental care units of Burela, Praza do Ferrol and Viveiro (Lugo). The study included sociodemographic, clinical, utilization, behavioural and IC-related variables.

Gingival squamous cell carcinoma: diagnostic delay or rapid invasion?

Background: The similarity between gingival squamous cell carcinoma (GSCC) and more common periodontal lesions may lead to a delay in diagnosis or misdiagnosis. Neoplastic lesions of gingival tissues are frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage.

Methods: To assess the relative time from when patients first become aware of the problem to histopathologic diagnosis (total diagnostic time), 59 consecutive oral cancer cases were examined in this study.

Survival to oral cancer. A study of clinical risk markers with independent prognostic value.

Background: The aims of this study have been to describe survival to oral cancer and to identify clinical variables with independent influence on its prognosis before treatment.

Methods: 94 oral cancer patients treated during 1991-99 entered the study. The variables considered were: age, sex, location of the lesion, clinical presentation, symptoms, TNM classification, months elapsed since treatment and ploidy pattern.

Essential data set for computer management of distributed primary care services.

Reported here is a personal computer-based registration program of medical consultations in general practice that has been implemented in six communities ('primary health care districts'; total population 112623) in the county of Jönköping, southern Sweden. The program enabled decentralized monitoring and management of the primary health care organization in the communities. The objective of the present paper is to give, from one year's experience of about 137000 recorded visits, a broad overview of the program structure, briefly considering the questions associated with routine registration of medical consultations, to discuss how the system is used for decision and steering support as well as to summarize its overall performance, results and costs in relation to the general utility of accurate information on health service delivery and consumption in the population.

A prospective study of the morbidity pattern of patients seen at a university primary care clinic.

Information on the morbidity pattern of patients seen at a primary care clinic is sparse or not available for most countries in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia. A prospective study of all new patients at the primary care clinic of King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was therefore carried out over a period of one year (1991G to 1992G). An analysis of the morbidity pattern of 9,441 new patients seen over this period is hereby reported.