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Browsing Department of Health Services Faculty Papers by Title
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Managed care and patient ratings of the quality of specialty care among patients with pain or depressive symptoms
(2007)Background: Managed care efforts to regulate access to specialists and reduce costs may lower quality of care. Few studies have examined whether managed care is associated with patient perceptions of the quality of care ... -
Protocol of the COSMIN study: COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments
(2006)Background: Choosing an adequate measurement instrument depends on the proposed use of the instrument, the concept to be measured, the measurement properties (e.g. internal consistency, reproducibility, content and construct ... -
Randomized pilot study to disseminate caries-control services in dentist offices
(2006)Background: To determine whether education and financial incentives increased dentists' delivery of fluoride varnish and sealants to at risk children covered by capitation dental insurance in Washington state (U.S.). Methods: ... -
Readability of pediatric health materials for preventive dental care
(2006)Background: This study examined the content and general readability of pediatric oral health education materials for parents of young children. Methods: Twenty-seven pediatric oral health pamphlets or brochures from ... -
Reducing Oral Health Disparities: A Focus on Social and Cultural Determinants
(2006)Oral health is essential to the general health and well-being of individuals and the population. Yet significant oral health disparities persist in the U.S. population because of a web of influences that include complex ... -
A simulation study comparing aberration detection algorithms for syndromic surveillance
(2007)Background: The usefulness of syndromic surveillance for early outbreak detection depends in part on effective statistical aberration detection. However, few published studies have compared different detection algorithms ...