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Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the patterns of patients managed at the oral medicine service centres at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, New Zealand and Weifang People’s Hospital, Weifang, China. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients’ clinical records were collected from 2015 to...

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Autores principales: Han, Chengbing, Mei, Li, Liu, Anyang, Hassan, Sara Ya Mohammad, Polonowita, Ajith, Guan, Guangzhao
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9364210/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605221115384
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author Han, Chengbing
Mei, Li
Liu, Anyang
Hassan, Sara Ya Mohammad
Polonowita, Ajith
Guan, Guangzhao
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Mei, Li
Liu, Anyang
Hassan, Sara Ya Mohammad
Polonowita, Ajith
Guan, Guangzhao
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description OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the patterns of patients managed at the oral medicine service centres at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, New Zealand and Weifang People’s Hospital, Weifang, China. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients’ clinical records were collected from 2015 to 2020. Patient data from electronic and paper records were examined. The data included in this study for each patient were age, sex, ethnicity, source of referral, clinical investigation, diagnosis, and management. RESULTS: There were 99,603 patients included in the analysis. Most of the patients (56.5%–71.0%) were women aged 50 to 70 years. Referrals were typically from internal sources (20.0%–52.7%), medical practitioners (27.5%–29.6%), and dental practitioners (18.3%–28.3%). The main clinical investigations included blood tests (22.1%–25.4%), diagnostic imaging (12.2%–28.3%), and biopsy (9.4%–12.8%). Oral and maxillofacial pathology accounted for 73.9% to 83.3% of all diagnoses. The main treatment was self-care (15.2%–36.6%), and the most prescribed medication was a corticosteroid (26.4%–30.2%). CONCLUSIONS: Most patients in oral medicine clinics were 50 to 70-year-old women. Blood tests, imaging, and biopsy were the main clinical investigations. Most of the diagnoses were oromucosal diseases. The main treatments were self-care and corticosteroid prescriptions.
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spelling pubmed-93642102022-08-11 Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020 Han, Chengbing Mei, Li Liu, Anyang Hassan, Sara Ya Mohammad Polonowita, Ajith Guan, Guangzhao J Int Med Res Retrospective Clinical Research Report OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the patterns of patients managed at the oral medicine service centres at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, New Zealand and Weifang People’s Hospital, Weifang, China. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients’ clinical records were collected from 2015 to 2020. Patient data from electronic and paper records were examined. The data included in this study for each patient were age, sex, ethnicity, source of referral, clinical investigation, diagnosis, and management. RESULTS: There were 99,603 patients included in the analysis. Most of the patients (56.5%–71.0%) were women aged 50 to 70 years. Referrals were typically from internal sources (20.0%–52.7%), medical practitioners (27.5%–29.6%), and dental practitioners (18.3%–28.3%). The main clinical investigations included blood tests (22.1%–25.4%), diagnostic imaging (12.2%–28.3%), and biopsy (9.4%–12.8%). Oral and maxillofacial pathology accounted for 73.9% to 83.3% of all diagnoses. The main treatment was self-care (15.2%–36.6%), and the most prescribed medication was a corticosteroid (26.4%–30.2%). CONCLUSIONS: Most patients in oral medicine clinics were 50 to 70-year-old women. Blood tests, imaging, and biopsy were the main clinical investigations. Most of the diagnoses were oromucosal diseases. The main treatments were self-care and corticosteroid prescriptions. SAGE Publications 2022-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9364210/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605221115384 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Polonowita, Ajith
Guan, Guangzhao
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title Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020
title_full Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020
title_fullStr Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020
title_full_unstemmed Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020
title_short Oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020
title_sort oral medicine services: a two-centre study of 99,603 patients between 2015 and 2020
topic Retrospective Clinical Research Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9364210/
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