Home or away? Differences between home- and clinic-based dental examinations for older people
Fairhall TJ et al. - While clinic-based examinations will remain the preferred option, the potential loss of information associated with home-based examinations is unlikely to be great enough to preclude using them where required, although surveys with larger samples (and therefore more accurate estimates) should restrict their proportion of home-based examinations to no more than 10%. As they are less precise, surveys with samples of 300 or fewer can safely accommodate up to about one-third of their examinations being conducted in participants' homes. [more...]
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