The Reliability of clinical and radiographic examinations in the National Preventive Dentistry Demonstration Program
By: Stephen P. Klein ... [et al.].
Contributors: Klein, Stephen P., 1938-
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Teeth -- Diseases -- Diagnosis.; Teeth -- Radiography.; Children -- Dental care -- United States -- Evaluation.; Preventive dentistry -- United States -- Evaluation.; Dental surveys -- United States.; Dental health surveys -- United States.; Diagnosis, Oral -- Standards.; School dentistry -- United States.
Description: This report documents findings on examiner reliability in the National Preventive Dentistry Demonstration Program. In successive chapters it (1) summarizes the reasons for measuring examiner reliability, reviews the characteristics and findings of recent studies that have assessed it, and identifies important reliability issues that have been neglected in past research; (2) describes the program and the procedures used to collect the data; (3) presents data on interexaminer and intraexaminer consistency in assessing decay both within a year and across years; (4) presents reliability results for other indexes of oral health; and (5) describes the degree to which the program's radiograph readers agreed with themselves and each other in interpreting the X-rays.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 67-71.
"June 1984."
"R-3138-RWJ."