Guidance

Analysis of hospital tooth extractions: methods and data quality

A description of methods, data quality, data sources and quality assurances used to generate numbers and rates of hospital-based tooth extractions.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Published: 23 February 2023
• Last updated: 8 February 2024
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  1. 8 February 2024

     Section on alignment of data sources has been updated to reflect the current position with the NHS Outcomes Framework.

  2. 23 February 2023

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Methods for calculating numbers and rates of hospital tooth extractions

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Data quality and disclosure control for hospital-based tooth extraction data

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Quality assurance statement

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Alignment of other hospital tooth extraction sources

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Details

These documents describe the approach taken by the Dental Public Health team of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) when conducting analysis of hospital-based tooth extractions in 0 to 19 year olds.