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| Title |
Attitude and awareness of medical and dental students towards collaboration between medical and dental practice in Hong Kong
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| Published in |
BMC Oral Health, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12903-015-0038-2 |
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| Authors |
Shinan Zhang, Edward CM Lo, Chun-Hung Chu |
| Abstract |
Medical-dental collaboration is essential for improving resource efficiency and standards of care. However, few studies have been conducted on it. This study aimed to investigate the attitude and awareness of medical and dental students about collaboration between medical and dental practices in Hong Kong. All medical and dental students in Hong Kong were invited to complete a questionnaire survey at their universities, hospitals and residential halls. It contained 8 questions designed to elicit their attitudes about the collaboration between medical and dental practice. Students were also asked about their awareness of the collaboration between dentistry and medicine. The questionnaires were directly distributed to medical and dental students. The finished questionnaires were immediately collected by research assistants on site. A total of 1,857 questionnaires were distributed and 809 (44%) were returned. Their mean attitude score (SD) towards medical-dental collaboration was 6.37 (1.44). Most students (77%) were aware of the collaboration between medical and dental practice in Hong Kong. They considered that Ear, Nose & Throat, General Surgery and Family Medicine were the 3 most common medical disciplines which entailed collaboration between medical and dental practice. In this study, the medical and dental students in general demonstrated a good attitude and awareness of the collaboration between medical and dental practice in Hong Kong. This established an essential foundation for fostering medical-dental collaboration, which is vital to improving resource efficiency and standards of care. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 75 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 5% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 24% |
| Unknown | 23 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 36% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 12% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 27 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2018.
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#16,108,994
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Outputs from BMC Oral Health
#761
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#150,524
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#14
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