Completeness of Dental Data in Health Data Center of Community Hospitals in Ratchaburi Province
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Objective: Dental data, according to the indicators used to monitor operations in Ratchaburi Province and stored in the Health Data Center, revealed discrepancies between the reported performance data and the actual situation. This mixed-method research aimed to assess the completeness of dental data and explain factors that may be related to the dental data imported into the Health Data Center according to the standard structure of health data.
Materials and Methods: The sample consisted of data from the dental files of outpatient departments in four community hospitals in Ratchaburi Province for the fiscal year 2022, totalling 50,345 records. The percentage of data completeness was assessed in both column and row dimensions using Python 3.11. Subsequently, factors potentially related to the completeness of the dental data were collected through observation and in-depth interviews with five relevant personnel at each hospital, followed by content analysis.
Results: After structuring, the data consisted of 11,685 records. In each hospital, column completeness for various oral health examination data fields during dental visits ranged from 11.6% to 96.3%. However, the data field for denture necessity had the lowest completeness in all hospitals, ranging from 0.3% to 93.0%. Row completeness for dental visits ranged from 0.3% to 93.0%. When comparing by age group, it was found that in two hospitals, row completeness for the 0-12 years’ age group was 45.4% and 56.2%, respectively, which differed from other age groups, where row completeness was 5.0% and 1.3%. Column completeness for individual cases ranged from 0.8% to 98.3%, while row completeness for individual cases ranged from 0.8% to 94.3%. Factors potentially related to the varying completeness of dental data across hospitals included data needs and utilization, monitoring indicators, data recording guidelines, initial settings, and the user interface of the data recording program.
Conclusion: The completeness in summary, the completeness of oral health examination data varies across hospitals. Data for the child age group is more complete than that of other age groups, and coding for denture necessity is the least complete. Improving the related factors may enhance the overall completeness of the data.
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