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MCG School of Dentistry Quality Assurance Manual
The Assessment of Clinical Quality and/or Professional Performance
Terminology
- General guidelines review definitions, purposes, special
considerations and rules pertinent to the assessment of clinical
quality and/or professional performance for each dental service or
care component for which assessment is deemed necessary.
- Rating system for quality evaluation provides a rationale for
the rating of clinical quality and/or professional performance in
one of two rating categories: Acceptable and Not Ac- acceptable.
- Standards are professionally developed expressions of the
variations from a criterion which are satisfactory.
- Quality Assessment Criteria are predetermined elements of care
against which aspects of the quality of service may be judged.
- Acceptable covers clinical quality and/or professional
performance that meets all Quality Assessment Criteria.
- Not Acceptable covers clinical quality and/or professional
performance which does not meet Quality Assessment Criteria and is
either now producing damage to the patient’s general or dental
health or is likely to cause future damage.
- List of Services to be Indexed:
- History and Clinical Examination; Diagnosis; Treatment
Planning, including Radiographic Examination
- Endodontics
- Implant Dentistry
- Operative Dentistry
- Oral Surgery
- Orthodontics
- Pediatric Dentistry
- Periodontics
- Prosthodontics, complete
- Prosthodontics, fixed
- Prosthodontics, removable
- Code for Rating System
A = Acceptable NA= Not Acceptable
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