Assessing use of a standardized dental diagnostic terminology in an electronic health record.

ABSTRACT: 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 aggregate

SUBMITTER: Tokede O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3545411 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature