Luz María Sánchez-Romero, Francisco Canto-Osorio, Romina González-Morales, M Arantxa Colchero, Shu-Wen Ng, Paula Ramírez-Palacios, Jorge Salmerón, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez
Association between tax on sugar sweetened beverages and soft drink consumption in adults in Mexico: open cohort longitudinal analysis of Health Workers Cohort Study
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
purpose allied dental health care professionals served disaster victim identification dvi teams however literature void statistical measures regarding transferable skills disaster preparedness purpose study assess second year dental hygiene dental assistant students match accuracy simulated dvi radiographs compare match accuracy student groupsmethods five patient cases chosen random retrospectively collect sets digital bitewing radiographs two time periods five retrospectively selected sets images served simulated antemortem postmortem pm radiographs convenience sample second year dental hygiene dental assistant students two institutions n48 invited participate irbexempt descriptive observational study previously selected pm images randomly mismatched participants asked visually compare image sets indicate matches using drag drop feature electronic survey instrument descriptive statistics used analyze data significance level set 005results total 41 dental hygiene dental assistant students agreed participate response rate 854 eightyfive percent participants accurately matched five five sets remaining 15 accurately matched three five sets onesample binomial proportion test revealed 80 participants able match least four five sets p0001 dental hygiene students demonstrated increased matching performance compared dental assisting students p0013conclusion dental hygiene dental assistant students demonstrated transferable dvi skills accurately match simulated pm radiographs future research needed larger sample develop assess best practices dvi training build existing skills allied dental health care professionals