Stopped: Published study provided evidence that intervention would provide little effect; study not approved by provider community.
Purpose: 1. Revise the existing oral health risk assessment tool (known as the Encounter Form in the IRB-approved project DENT-1527) and develop accompanying guidelines for its use and distribution. 2. Evaluate the education intervention to accompany the distribution of the new risk assessment tool - the Priority Oral Health Risk Assessment and Referral Tool - PORRT and guidelines. 3. Evaluate the extent to which the education intervention affects physicians' screening and referral performance (use of guidelines, appropriateness and quality of referrals). Participants: Primary care medical and dental providers in North Carolina. Procedures (methods): UNC will engage in a systematic literature review of dental caries risk and a simulation analysis in order to finalize the design of the PORRT referral tool and its accompanying guidelines. Medical providers will be surveyed statewide regarding their oral health screening practices with children under three years of age, and a randomized controlled trial will be implemented in 75 of these practices to evaluate guideline dissemination and effectiveness. Referral behavior will be evaluated through an analysis of the completed PORRT forms and a record review in dental practices serving as referral sites. Medicaid claims analysis will determine referral effectiveness for the RCT sites compared to the state as a whole.
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Referral rate defined as the proportion of children of the target age seen in participating medical practices who receive preventive dental services and are referred to an area dentist.
Timeframe: Within 6 months of receipt of preventive dental services from a medical practice.