Promoting Oral Health in Childhood: A Quality Improvement Project
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Quality Improvement Efforts in Pediatric Oral Health.
Quality improvement (QI) and measurement are increasingly used in health care to improve patient care and outcomes. Despite current barriers in oral health measurement, there are nascent QI and measurement efforts emerging. This paper describes the role that QI and measurement can play in improving oral health care delivery in clinical practice by presenting a QI initiative that aimed to test a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-2396