An International Working Definition for Quality of Oral Healthcare.

ABSTRACT: To assess and improve the quality of oral healthcare, we must first agree on what constitutes good care. Currently there is no internationally accepted definition for quality of oral healthcare. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to establish a working definition for quality of oral healthcare that would help to advance further improvements in the field of quality improvement in oral healthcare. The development of the working definition included a 3-step approach: 1) literature screening; 2) expert-based compilation of an initial list of topics, leaning on the National Academy of Medicine framework for quality of care; and 3) a World Café with voting, which took place during the annual general meeting of the International Association for Dental Research in 2018. Following this approac

SUBMITTER: Righolt AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079288 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature