April Garlejo, Jacob Bonner, Ashley Paddock, John Park, Nolan Lyda, Ahmed Zaky, Susan McMullan
Assessing and Improving Provider Knowledge for a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Electronic Dashboard Initiative
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
assess whether eligibility agerelated universal pioneer generation pg subsidy incentivises dental attendance older singaporeans data collected 2018 2021 inperson interviews singaporean adults aged 6090 years using questionnaire clinical examination questionnaire included details age gender ethnicity education residential status socioeconomic status marital status eligibility subsidy community health assistancechas pg frequency dental attendance clinical examination recorded number teeth categorized edentulous 19 teeth1019 teeth 20 teeth estimate effect pg subsidy dental attendance pattern regression discontinuity rd analysis applied using age assignment variable total 1172 participants aged 6090 years 642 female recruited 498 43 eligible pg subsidy eligible pg subsidy higher proportion regular attenders irregular attenders 536 vs 464 age adjusted rd analysis eligible pg subsidy 16 95 ci 10 27 times likely report regular attendance pg noneligible counterparts association remained strong 21 95 ci 1137 even controlling demographics socioeconomic factors number teeth eligibility chas subsidy eligible pg subsidy substantially increased odds regular dental attendance