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ArticleJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare2023

Oral Health Assessment Tools for Elderly Adults: A Scoping Review.

Heng Yang, Jiechenming Xiao, Shaomei Cui, Liyan Zhang, Lixia Chen

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Article in Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Oral Microbiome Changes During Hospitalization in Older Adults Not Receiving Mechanical Ventilation.American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Heng YangDepartment of Nursing, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Yiwu, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-9469-6464
Jiechenming XiaoDepartment of Nursing, Huangyan Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Shaomei CuiDepartment of Nursing, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Yiwu, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Liyan ZhangDepartment of Nursing, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Yiwu, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Lixia ChenDepartment of Nursing, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Yiwu, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to synthesize the Oral Health Assessment Tool for elderly adults and determine its psychosocial properties. Methods: We conducted a scoping review. The Arkey and O'Malley methodology was employed to conduct scoping reviews involving the exploration of both national and international databases, as well as a manual search of the reference lists of the selected studies. We focused on oral health assessment tools for elderly adults (>60 years). The review report adhered to the standards outlined in the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. The study protocol was officially filed with the Open Science Framework. Results: A total of 19 documents were included. The literature search included a time frame ranging from 1995 to 2023 and covered a diverse range of 13 countries. Of the 19 assessment tools examined, it was found that only the Oral Assessment Sheet had multidimensional characteristics, while the remaining tools were unidimensional in nature. The evaluation of oral health assessment tools was conducted across several contexts, including nursing homes, geriatric facilities, communities, and hospitals. A total of eleven studies underwent reliability testing, whereas two studies were alone validated for validity and did not undergo reliability testing. Additionally, seven studies were exclusively validated for reliability and did not undergo validity testing. Conclusion: Multidimensional oral health assessment tools for elderly adults that integrate social and psychological aspects need to be developed and validated. It is necessary to develop oral health assessment tools based on hospitalized elderly patients to meet the oral and dental health needs of elderly patients.

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assessment toolselderly adultsoral healthreliabilityscoping reviewvalidity

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PMCPMC10750773

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