Dental Care Visits in Health Centres (Practitioners Other Than Dentists) for Those Aged 18 and Over per 1000 Persons of Same Age
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator gives the average number of dental care visits to practitioners other than dentists in health centres per thousand inhabitants aged 18 and over during the statistical year. Oral health care visits in outpatient primary health care for practitioners other than dentists include dental assistant and dental hygienist visits in health-centre dental care units. In addition to clients'/patients' dental care consultation visits to practitioners other than dentists, dental care visits in outpatient primary health care for practitioners other than dentists here also include visits by practitioners other than dentists to clients/patients. The population data refer to year-end data.
Numerator
The total number of dental care visits in health centres meeting the inclusion criteria during the statistical year.
Denominator
Number of inhabitants aged 18 and over (per thousand)
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Age; Gender total; 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