Table 2.
Articles selected in the search on “health information systems in dentistry and standardized clinical coding systems”
| References | SCCS-related themes | Purpose(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Leake 2002 [23] | General | Overview of the definition, utility, and developments to date of diagnostic codes in dentistry |
| Goldberg 2005 [24] | Internal quality evaluation | Computer-based evaluation of SNODENT’s internal quality |
| Smith et al., 2010 [19] | Design/development | Introduction of an ontology based on the OBO Foundry |
| White et al., 2011 [18] | Usage evaluation & validation | EDR-based evaluation of Z code usage in predoctoral clinical practice in a US dental school |
| Kalenderian et al., 2011 [17] | Design/Development | Development of EZcodes [later renamed DDS] through iterative process by a work group of dental faculty members |
| Tokede et al., 2013 [25] | Usage evaluation & validation | EDR-based evaluation of EZcodes [DDS] usage over a 1-year period in 3 dental schools |
| Schleyer et al., 2013 [20] | Design/Development | Introduction of the Oral Health and Disease Ontology based on the OBO Foundry |
| Lam et al., 2014 [2] | Design/Development | Extension of billing codes to include diagnostic information |
| Reed et al., 2015 [26] | Pedagogical evaluation | Case–control multicentric study in 3 dental schools to determine whether exposure to DDS terms improves students’ scores in the Health Sciences Reasoning Test |
| Ramoni et al., 2015 [27] | User perception | Electronic survey of attitudes and beliefs toward the use of dental diagnostic terminology in the US |
| Ramoni et al., 2017 [14] | Usage description | Electronic survey of standardized dental diagnostic terminology usage in US dental schools |
| Sutton et al., 2017 [28] | Usage evaluation & validation | Case-based evaluation of DDS usage for radiographic carious lesions among dental faculty members |
| Obadan-Udoh et al., 2017 [29] | User perception | Survey of users’ attitudes towards standardized dental diagnostic terminologies and evaluation of strategies to improve their use |
| Yansane et al., 2019 [30] | Usage evaluation & validation | EDR-based evaluation of DDS usage over a 4-year period in 5 dental institutions |
| Taylor et al., 2019 [31] | Usage evaluation & validation | Case-based evaluation of SNODENT usage among dental faculty members and students |
SCCS: Standardized Clinical Coding System; OBO: Open Biomedical Ontologies; EDR: Electronic Dental Record; DDS: Dental Diagnostic System