A pilot improvement project in hospital-based oral healthcare: improving caries risk assessment documentation

The record and delivery of caries prevention for children in a primary care setting: a multi-practice collaborative clinical audit

“…20 There is evidence to suggest that by targeting and improving caries-susceptibility assessment, the quality of preventive care delivered can be improved. 21 Although this audit noted an overall reduction in the accuracy of susceptibility identification, this change was not statistically significant. Also, where susceptibility identification was incorrect, there was a shift towards an overestimation of susceptibility in cycle 2 from an underestimation in cases in cycle 1 (Table 3), and the proportion of high/moderate susceptibility patients receiving appropriate prevention according to the clinical record significantly improved.…”