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Evaluation of Subjective Oral Health Status Indicators
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 1994Abstract Objectives: This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate the performance of a battery of subjective oral health status indicators originally developed for use in large scale surveys of older adults. The aim was to assess their generalizability, efficiency, reliability, and validity when used in a study of adults aged 18 years and over
D Locker
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COMPARING INDICATORS OF HEALTH OR NUTRITIONAL STATUS
American Journal of Epidemiology, 1986The performance of an indicator of health or nutritional status depends on its sensitivity and specificity properties over a range of cut-offs. Frequently, it is of interest to compare indicators to pick the best for a given purpose, such as screening for disease or monitoring to detect changes in prevalence of inadequate nutriture.
Cavell Brownie, J P Habicht
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A Comparison of Three Health Status Indicators
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1976Interest in health status indicators has produced measures of widely varying applicability. We were interested in the use of such indices to establish mean recovery curves for groups of similar patients undergoing acute hospital treatment. A longitudinal study relating resource usage to these recovery curves had been intended but there were ...
J M, Coles +3 more
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Improving dental health status indicators for evaluation.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996Abstract Central to the evaluation of any dental health programme is the dental status of the population it serves. The DMFT index has been widely used to indicate dental status in evaluations, however, there are a number of characteristics of the DMFT index which undermine its value in evaluating programmes.
J. Lewis
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, 1995
Major objective of the analyses of data presented here, was to obtain a better understanding of the information content; the information collecting, processing and documentation procedures; the information quality, reliability and stability; the quality control and maintenance procedures; the overall targets of the information
W. Morgenstern +4 more
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Major objective of the analyses of data presented here, was to obtain a better understanding of the information content; the information collecting, processing and documentation procedures; the information quality, reliability and stability; the quality control and maintenance procedures; the overall targets of the information
W. Morgenstern +4 more
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Associations between xerostomia and health status indicators in the elderly
Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 2006Aims: This study investigated the associations between xerostomia (dry mouth) (low, moderate and high) with other categorical variables (e.g. demographic and health status indicators). This paper aims to report on the severity of xerostomia in the elderly population and investigate the relationship with other aspects of perceived health.
D. Matear +3 more
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Using subjective oral health status indicators to screen for dental care needs in older adults
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996D Locker
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Public Health, 2019
OBJECTIVES To investigate how various alcohol-drinking behaviours are associated with sociodemographics, lifestyle factors and health status indicators in Brazil.
G. A. Sandoval +4 more
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OBJECTIVES To investigate how various alcohol-drinking behaviours are associated with sociodemographics, lifestyle factors and health status indicators in Brazil.
G. A. Sandoval +4 more
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