Adult Dental Care Clients Who Make More Than Five Visits to the Dentist Each Year, Percentage of All Dentist Clients
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator represents the percentage of oral health care patients aged 18 or older who have made six or more visits to dental health care per year, among all dental health care patients of a similar age. The municipality to examine will be the municipality where the first visit was made, where patients have made visits in several municipalities.
Numerator
Number of oral health care patients aged 18 or older who have made six or more visits to dental health care per year
Denominator
All dental health care patients of a similar age
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Sex (male female, combined); Municipality, sub-region, region, the well-being services county, hospital district, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, university hospital special responsibility area, Mainland Finland/Åland, whole country
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Sotkanet