Skourtes Institute

Informatics approaches to understand and reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by dentists the skourtes institute together with the willamette dental management company (ein:93-1226036), will participate in all phases of the grant.our long-term goal is to build a sustainable national dental learning health system focused on continuous quality improvement that facilitates providing patients with high quality, evidence-based oral healthcare. To do this, we first need to establish a practice-level learning health system (lhs) supported by an effective informatics infrastructure, relevant data governance and a culture of learning that drives evidence-based dental practice. In this project, we seek to quantify and understand inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, and to iteratively develop improvement strategies to improve prescribing. Through a deep understanding of why antibiotics are so frequently prescribed outside of the guidelines, we expect to engage the dental team and patients to develop feasible interventions. We will conduct the research at two large group practices: healthpartners (hp) and willamette dental group (wdg) which together have over 100,000 patient visits per year. Our project team comprises of experts in dental informatics, healthcare quality and safety, and human factors. Donated labor services of 86,264 from willamette dental management company (ein:93-1226036) were provided to skourtes institute to assist with the achievement of this program service accomplishment.

Reducing oral health disparities in children: skourtes institute has been awarded a grant from the university of california san francisco. The grant supports a research project titled "assessing the multilevel impact of a standardized preventative dental care system." the skourtes institute together with the willamette dental management company (ein:93-1226036), will participate in all phases of the grant. The grant is a program evaluation of the preventative care model used by willamette dental. This will include access to patients for in person surveys, access to patient electronic health records, access to dental protocols, access to patient demographics and data and access and participation from key willamette dental employees. You are able to track disparities since willamette dental has a large population of medicaid children in addition to its commercial children population. The goal of the research project is to evaluate the impact of current standardized evidence-based prevention and treatment programs that are geared toward reducing disparities in dental health of children; as well as improving these standardized evidence-based prevention and treatment programs, providing better overall population health, improving the care experience and lowering per capita cost of children. Donated labor services of 4,471 from willamette dental management company (ein:93-1226036) were provided to skourtes institute to assist with the achievement of this program service accomplishment.