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15731793

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-2-25
pubmed:abstractText
The Scottish Executive Health Department approved funding in 2001 for Fife NHS Board to pilot an integrated model of out-of-hours dental services based upon a dental nurse-led triage system during the evenings, weekends and some public holidays. After one year of the pilot project the activity was evaluated by analysing the triage database. Nearly 4,000 calls were received--Fridays and Saturdays were the most popular days to telephone which resulted in nearly half of all callers being referred to an emergency weekend clinic. Thirty-nine percent of callers received advice only or were advised to contact their own dentist during working hours. A further 12% who were not registered with a dentist (n=479) were offered a next-day appointment with a dentist in their area--around half of these callers subsequently attended for an appointment. Only two out of every 100 callers were deemed to require emergency out-of-hours attention and were referred to oral surgery staff in a local hospital.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0007-0610
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
198
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
193-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Out-of-hours emergency dental services--evaluation of the first year of a pilot project in Fife.
pubmed:affiliation
Dental Health Services Research Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee DD2 4BF, Scotland, UK. g.topping@chs.dundee.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article