Socio‐demographic and familial factors associated with hospital admissions and repeat admission for dental caries in early childhood: A population‐based study

Autor: Jane C. Bell, Carrie Tsai, Natasha Nassar, Heiko Spallek, Clara K Chow, Woosung Sohn, Michelle Irving, Francisco J. Schneuer, Harleen Kumar, Rebecca Chen
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 50:539-547
ISSN: 1600-0528
0301-5661
Popis: OBJECTIVES Dental caries remains a complex childhood condition often requiring preventable hospital admissions. There are limited population-based epidemiological studies that use large and linked data sets to quantify the clinical, socio-demographic and familial risk factors related to hospital admissions for dental caries. The aim of this study was to describe and quantify the rates, socio-demographic, clinical characteristics and familial factors including repeat admissions associated with young children admitted to hospital for dental caries. METHODS This cohort study (n = 33,438) used longitudinally linked hospital admission data among all children aged
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