Table 2 |
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Practitioner and Practice Characteristics Available From the DPBRN Enrollment Questionnaire |
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Practice setting |
Patient population |
Dental procedure characteristics |
Dentist individual characteristics |
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Number of different sites at which you provide patient care at least once each week |
Age distribution |
Percentage of your time each day spent doing specific types of procedures 3 |
Gender |
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Whether you practice full-time or part-time |
Racial distribution |
Percentage of procedures that are done mainly for esthetic reasons |
Race |
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Number of full-time dental hygienists in your practice |
Percentage of revenues or charges that are derived from different payment sources 2 |
Percentage of certain procedures that you refer to other dentists 4 |
Year of graduation from dental school |
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Number of full-time dental assistants in your practice |
Percentage of patients who get certain services at some time while they are patients in your practice 5 |
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Number of dental chairs you use regularly in your part of the practice |
Number of root canal procedures that you do or refer each month |
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Number of patient visits you personally have during a typical week |
Number of dental extractions that you do or refer each month |
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Typical number of days a patient has to wait for a new patient examination |
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Typical number of days a patient has to wait for a treatment procedure appointment |
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Practice busyness 1 |
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1 Too busy to treat all people requesting appointments; Provided care to all who requested appointments, but the practice was overburdened; Provided care to all who requested appointments, and the practice was not overburdened; Not busy enough - the practice could have treated more patients. 2 Dental insurance; Self-pay; Unpaid bills; Other. 3 Percentage of patient contact time that you spend in a typical month performing the following procedures: Non-implant restorative dentistry; Implants (either implant surgery or time spent with implant placement); Dental extractions; Periodontal therapy (either time spent doing surgery or with non-surgical procedures); Endodontic therapy; Other (preventive and diagnostic). 4 Percentage of the following procedures that you refer to other dentists: Periodontal surgery; Prosthetic crowns and bridges (other than implants); Implant surgery; Implant restorations; Anterior tooth root canals; Molar tooth root canals; Non-surgical extractions. 5 Percentage of patients on which you or your staff perform the following procedures at some time while the patient is in your practice: Diet counseling; Blood pressure screening; Oral cancer screening examination; Oral hygiene instruction; Patient education from written pamphlets; Intraoral photographs; Intraoral video images taken; At-home whitening. |
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Makhija et al. BMC Oral Health 2009 9:26 doi:10.1186/1472-6831-9-26 |
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