Characterization of patients who attend the Register, Diagnostic and Emergency Clinic at School of Dentistry, Universidad del Valle, Cali Colombia in 2011
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There is little information available regarding the characterization of patients who attend Dentistry public school Clinics in Colombia. The records of patients who attended a public Dental school clinic (CIDU) were analyzed. The characterization was developed using the following variables: origin, age, medical history, gender, medical treatment at the time of consultation, dental care treatment at the time of consultation, medication intake , marital status, affiliation to a health service, education level, and more frequent diagnoses using the International Code of diseases (ICD). The main goal of this research is the characterization of 612 patients who attend and register in the dental diagnostic and emergency clinic (CIDU) at Universidad del Valle, school of dentistry,in Cali Colombia. The fieldwork for this research was carried out between February 7 and December 16, 2011. The purpose is to have reliable information about the profiles of the patients and thus encourage proper planning from an infrastructural, teaching and health care perspective.
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- Jorge-Andrés Meneses, Jhon-Jairo Ordoñez, Óscar Chávez, Omar Galvis, Natalia Aragón, Dora Ordoñez, Characterization of the patients who attended the admission, diagnosis and emergency clinic (CIDU) of the dentistry service of a higher education institution in southwestern Colombia - 2015 , Revista Estomatología: Vol. 26 No. 1 (2018)
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