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Dental Clinical Quality & Ops Consultant, Dental and oral health

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Dental and oral health Dental Clinical Quality & Ops Consultant

Publications While At HealthPartners

selected publications

Journal Article

"I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion. 

Healthcare. 2024

Dental patients as partners in promoting quality and safety: a qualitative exploratory study. 

BMC oral health. 2024

The nature of adverse events in dentistry. 

Journal of patient safety. 2024

Clinical decision support to reduce opioid prescriptions for dental extractions using SMART on FHIR: implementation report. 

JMIR medical informatics. 2023

De-Implementing Opioids for Dental Extractions (DIODE): a multi-clinic, cluster-randomized trial of clinical decision support strategies in dentistry. 

Implementation science. 2023

De-implementing opioid prescribing in a dental group practice: lessons learned. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2023

Periodontal treatment and subsequent clinical outcomes and medical care costs: a retrospective cohort study. 

PloS One. 2023

Patient experience of post-extraction pain management. 

Front Dent Med. 2022

De-implementing opioid use and implementing optimal pain management following dental extractions (DIODE): protocol for a cluster randomized trial. 

JMIR research protocols. 2021

Patient, provider type, and procedure type factors associated with opioid prescribing by dentists in a health care system. 

Journal of Pain Research. 2021

Quantifying dental office-originating adverse events: the Dental Practice Study methods. 

Journal of patient safety. 2021

Assessing the patient safety culture in dentistry. 

JDR clinical and translational research. 2020

Creating systems aligned with the triple-aim and value-based care. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2020

Caries treatment in a dental practice-based research network: movement toward stated evidence-based treatment. 

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2013

Utilization of nondentist providers and attitudes toward new provider models: findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2013

A comparison of dental restoration outcomes after placement by restorative function auxiliaries versus dentists. 

Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2012

Conference Poster

Could BMI be a caries risk predictor [poster]

2014

presentations

Presentation

Engaging the dental team in practice-based research [presentation]

Evaluating a new model for expanding access to dental care [presentation]

Patient satisfaction with a dental restoration visit [presentation]

Random plasma glucose values measured in community dental practices: findings from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network [presentation]

Reason for repair or replacement of existing restorations in the Dental PBRN [presentation]

Risk factors for osteonecrosis of the jaw: a Dental Practice-Based Research Network case-control study [presentation], Oral and Systemic Health 2012 Regional Conference

Use of and attitudes toward non-dentist providers: from the Dental-PBRN [presentation]

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Donald C. Worley

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