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Recommended Guidelines for Surveillance of Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments - The purpose of this document is to provide a standardized framework for how state oral health programs (SOHPs) should evaluate and document the use of emergency departments (EDs) for non-traumatic dental conditions (NTDCs). By following this guidance, SOHPs will be able to compare their ED data to information from other states and have the ability to assess trends in ED use over time. (Updated July 2022)

Guidance on Assessing Emergency Department Data for Non-Traumatic Dental Conditions - This guidance is an abbreviated version of the Recommended Guidelines for Surveillance of Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments. (Updated July 2022)

National Surveillance Data of Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments Available Upon Request - The 2014 National Emergency Department Survey (NEDS) dataset has been acquired by ASTDD from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). NEDS is a nationally representative sampling of state data collected through the State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) system, the system used by most of the states. The NEDS data has been analyzed using the same protocols and diagnosis code sets to provide the ED oral care surveillance indicators that ASTDD recommends for states in the documents, Guidance on Assessing Emergency Department Data for Non-Traumatic Dental Conditions and Recommended Guidelines for Surveillance of Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments. For states conducting such analysis of their state's SEDD data, comparisons of state findings to national estimates may be of interest. These national estimates can be obtained from Mike Manz (mmanz@astdd.org) upon request. (December 2017)

Methods in Assessing Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments
This report is a review of studies on the use of emergency departments (EDs) for non traumatic oral health conditions. As with most public health problems, the first steps in addressing the issue are to confirm its existence and quantify its extent. This report explores the extent of variation in the different aspects of research conducted, including target populations, outcomes of interest, predictive factors investigated, data sources used, and specific research methods employed including the diagnostic codes used in defining ED dental care. This report presents the findings of the investigation, summarizes the positive and negative aspects of the findings, and provides recommendations on the conduct of future research. (January 2016)

Methods in Assessing Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments Appendices - The appendices include information taken verbatim from the respective websites. (January 2016)

Methods in Assessing Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments Publications Update (July 2023) - This document provides a listing of additional publications related to the use of emergency departments for non-traumatic oral conditions published since the report, Methods in Assessing Non-Traumatic Dental Care in Emergency Departments was completed. These publications were found using the same search criteria used to complete the literature search for the initial report. This listing of publications may be useful to those interested in information and results from the most recent studies published on this topic. This list is being updated periodically.