Relationships between dental personnel and non-dental primary health care providers in rural and remote Queensland, Australia: dental perspectives.

CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that there was little relationship between the dental personnel and primary care providers. Interprofessional collaboration between dental care providers and non-dental rural primary care providers in the rural and remote communities sampled could be improved by having regular face to face meetings between practitioners from across the health disciplines, providing oral health education to primary care providers, establishing and maintaining effective communication and referral pathways, and exploring a greater role for tele-dentistry. PMID: 28629349 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Rural Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Tags: BMC Oral Health Source Type: research