CLINICAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR DENTAL CARE PLANS

描述：该应用程序旨在开发、试点 测试和实施一套基于结果的质量措施， 牙科. 重点是龋齿和牙周病，两个慢性 这些疾病及其后遗症占所有索赔的97%， 牙科全科医生（第42页）。 该项目将 在两年期间执行;第一年将专门用于 质量措施的制定、规范和试点， 第二年全面实施示范措施， 两个大型牙科HMO的过程和结果的评价。 的 最终产品将是一本用户手册，其中载有对 开发、有效性和可靠性信息规范 确定分子和比率，计算比率的信息， 和未来使用的讨论。

Description: This application is directed at the development, pilot testing, and implementation of a set of outcome-based quality measures for dentistry. The focus is on caries and periodontal disease, two chronic diseases that, with their sequelae, comprise 97 percent of all claims from general practitioners of dentistry (page 42). The project will be implemented over a two-year period; the first year will be devoted to the development, specification, and piloting of the quality measures and the second year to a full-scale implementation demonstration of the measures and an evaluation of the process and outcomes in two large dental HMOs. The final product will be a user's manual containing reviews of the process of development, validity and reliability information, specifications for determining numerators and denominators, information on calculating rates, and future-use discussions.