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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1999
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, 2015
Medicine has long benefited from the International Classification of Disease (ICD), which was adopted in 1900 as an international standard for describing diagnosis. Dentistry and dental quality improvement activities have not enjoyed the same benefits of ICD as medicine has, due to the limited representation of oral health diagnoses in ICD. The advent of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has served as a catalyst to fill this knowledge representation gap in dentistry, and standardized dental diagnostic terminologies are in their early days of broader adoption. Within the clinical setting, dental practitioners are key stakeholders in the consistent documentation of oral health diagnoses: documentation of ICD diagnoses in medicine is nearly ubiquitous in part because medical billing requires documentation of diagnosis. In the dental setting, where documentation of diagnosis is not currently a requirement for billing, practitioners perceive both motivations for and barriers against the adoption and use of this foundational tool.
Journal of dental education, 2011
There is no commonly accepted standardized terminology for oral diagnoses. The purpose of this article is to report the development of a standardized dental diagnostic terminology by a work group of dental faculty members. The work group developed guiding principles for decision making and adhered to principles of terminology development. The members used an iterative process to develop a terminology incorporating concepts represented in the Toronto/University of California, San Francisco/Creighton University and International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9/10 codes and periodontal and endodontic diagnoses. Domain experts were consulted to develop a final list of diagnostic terms. A structure was developed, consisting of thirteen categories, seventy-eight subcategories, and 1,158 diagnostic terms, hierarchically organized and mappable to other terminologies and ontologies. Use of this standardized diagnostic terminology will reinforce the diagnosis-treatment link and will facili...
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, 2014
Journal of dental education, 2013
Although standardized terminologies such as the International Classification of Diseases have been in use in medicine for over a century, efforts in the dental profession to standardize dental diagnostic terms have not achieved widespread acceptance. To address this gap, a standardized dental diagnostic terminology, the EZCodes, was developed in 2009. Fifteen dental education institutions in the United States and Europe have implemented the EZCodes dental diagnostic terminology. This article reports on the utilization and valid entry of the EZCodes at three of the dental schools that have adopted this standardized dental diagnostic terminology. Electronic data on the use of procedure codes with diagnostic terms from the three schools over a period from July 2010 to June 2011 were aggregated. The diagnostic term and procedure code pairs were adjudicated by three calibrated dentists. Analyses were conducted to gain insight into the utilization and valid entry of the EZCodes diagnostic...
2007
Currently more than half of Electronic Health Record (EHR) projects fail. Most of these failures are not due to flawed technology, but rather due to the lack of systematic considerations of human issues. Among the barriers for EHR adoption, function mismatching among users, activities, and systems is a major area that has not been systematically addressed from a human-centered perspective. A theoretical framework called Functional Framework was developed for identifying and reducing functional discrepancies among users, activities, and systems. The Functional Framework is composed of three models – the User Model, the Designer Model, and the Activity Model. The User Model was developed by conducting a survey (N = 32) that identified the functions needed and desired from the user’s perspective. The Designer Model was developed by conducting a systemic review of an Electronic Dental Record (EDR) and its functions. The Activity Model was developed using an ethnographic method called sh...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2015
Head and Neck Pathology, 2011
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology, 1998
Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice, 2014
Dental Traumatology, 2006
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 1999
American Journal of Public Health, 2011
Journal of Dentistry, 2014
Journal of the California Dental Association, 2011
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2012
International Journal of Clinical Dentistry, 2013
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2012
European Journal of Dental Education, 2002
Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2004
Tochukwu Callistus Ipere , 2017
Head & Neck, 2008
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology, 1998
Journal of the California Dental Association, 2013
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology, 2014
International Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 1991