Quality Resource Guide –
Value Considerations in Oral Health Care
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Summary
T
his Quality Resource Guide was
developed to provide readers
interested in the topic of value,
as it relates to dental care and dental
benefits, with a conceptual foundation
and to provide an overview of current
major initiatives that are being pursued to
advance increased value in health care.
Forces underlying the growing emphasis
on value are expected to continue. As
is often the case, changes in response
to these forces initially occurred in the
larger medical care sectors (hospitals,
physicians, Medicare), but there already is
some evidence of similar types of changes
occurring within dental care delivery and
dental benefits. Being informed about the
underlying forces and expected changes
can help dental practitioners, dental benefit
providers and other key stakeholders
succeed in the emerging environment.
Strategies
for
demonstrating
and
increasing the value of dental care include:
1) adopting
evidence-based
care
processes (derived from evidence-
based guidelines);
2) developing methods for measuring and
reporting value-related aspects of care
3) adapting care delivery to improve
performance consistent with the Triple
Aim;
4) creating
new
care
delivery
arrangements that can demonstrate
and improve value; and
5) enhancing stakeholders’ understanding
of
health
care
trends,
quality
improvement, population health and
risk-based care.