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. 2022 Apr 19;22:131. doi: 10.1186/s12903-022-02163-9

Table 8.

Articles selected in the search “health information systems in dentistry and reuse of routine patient care data”

References Data reuse-related themes Purpose(s)
Umar 2002 [59] General, CDSS General considerations on the reuse of captured data in the management of patient care
Mendonça 2004 [47] CDSS Discussion of the characteristics of CDSSs, the challenges in developing them, the potential barriers to their use in clinical practice, and the future perspectives opened by them
Khanna 2010 [48] CDSS Discussion of the technical challenges and future prospects associated with EDRs
Fricton et al., 2011 [49] CDSS Evaluation of 2 CDSS activation approaches: the first based on an EDR and the second on the delivery of a secure e-mail or letter to patients encouraging them to ask their dental care provider to review the care guidelines specific to their medical condition
Rindal et al., 2013 [60] CDSS Evaluation of computer-assisted guidance for dental office tobacco cessation counseling
Song et al., 2013 [57] Clinical search Systematic review of studies on EDR data reuse in dental clinical research
Walji et al., 2014 [58] Clinical search Introduction of BigMouth, a multi-institutional dental data warehouse
Chen et al., 2016 [50] CDSS Introduction of an ontology-driven, case-based clinical decision support model for the design of removable partial dentures
Hunt et al., 2017 [53] Quality measure Overview of the development of quality measures and discussion of their importance for improving clinical practice, notably in the academic context
Righolt et al., 2019 [54] Quality measure Systematic review of studies describing existing quality measures in the field of oral health care or evaluating the scientific robustness and applicability of these measures
Obadan-Udoh et al., 2019 [55] Quality measure Description of the unintended consequences and challenges of quality measurements in dentistry
Byrne et al., 2019 [56] Quality measure Identification of the measures used to assess the quality of primary dental care and categorization of these measures according to the quality dimension to which they apply
Sayed 2019 [51] CDSS Systematic review of studies on CDSSs developed to help improve the survival of natural teeth
Machoy et al., 2020 [52] CDSS Overview of the latest attempts to apply Artificial Intelligence (e.g., CDSSs or genetic algorithms) in research and clinical dentistry

CDSS: Clinical Decision Support System