Monitoring Progress in Your Practice:

As pediatric oral health is integrated into well child visits in your practice, monitoring progress will become important. Following are some tools for monitoring success. Adapt them to meet your specific needs:

• From the First Tooth Quality Improvement Services
• DQ Quality Improvement through Transparent Data-Jonathan Fanburg
• Oral Health Driver Diagram – a guide with specific items to consider when integrating pediatric oral health into primary medical care
• Pediatric Oral Health in Primary Care Practices-Measuring and Tracking Oral Health Services
• Introduction to Pediatric Oral Health Documentation – Coding, Charging, Billing
• Quarterly Report Data Template
• EMR Examples: CompuGroup; Centricity; EClinical Works-St Croix; EPIC (widescreen)

Quality Incentive Pay/Quality Measures:

Pediatric oral health measures may be appropriate quality measures for your practice/group of practices.

Learn More:

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Dr. Hugh Silk,”Addressing Oral Health in Pediatric Care – Good, Better, Best!”

Alice Horowitz, “Using Health Literacy to Improve Children’s Oral Health”