A national calibration exercise for the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry regional examiners.
Community Dent Health
; 7(2): 179-87, 1990 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
Representative examiners from all regions in England and examiners from Wales and Scotland took part in a national calibration exercise conducted in Manchester for The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD). Each dentist examined the same group of thirty-three 5-year-old and thirty 14-year-old children independently, and they were asked to examine the children by the same method as that used within that Region when conducting the annual BASCD surveys. Comparisons of inter-examiner differences revealed that in the examination of 5-year-old children diagnoses were not significantly different for 14 out of the 16 Regional examiners. Differences in the conventions applied in the case of missing teeth and 'arrested caries' were found and are discussed. There were no significant differences in the diagnoses for the DMFT for the 14-year-old children amongst all 16 Regional examiners. The calibration exercise allowed a close examination of the application of the BASCD criteria in the field.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Sociedades Odontológicas
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Odontologia em Saúde Pública
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Métodos Epidemiológicos
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Odontologia Comunitária
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child, preschool
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Community Dent Health
Assunto da revista:
ODONTOLOGIA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
1990
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido