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Abstract
Telephone interviews with stratified random samples of urban and rural dental general practitioners (GPU, n = 120; GPR, n = 97) and oral surgeons (OS, n = 105) in New York State indicated that requests for expertise, additional data, confirmation of patient's medical status, or medico-legal issues were frequent motives for requesting a consult. Those who consulted more frequently had lower mean knowledge scores than those who consulted less frequently, suggesting that the quality of patient care is potentially improved via the consulting process.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3605463 PMCID: PMC1647252 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.77.8.1000
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Public Health ISSN: 0090-0036 Impact factor: 9.308