Development of short forms for screening children's dental caries and urgent treatment needs using item response theory and machine learning methods.

<h4>Objectives</h4>Surveys can assist in screening oral diseases in populations to enhance the early detection of disease and intervention strategies for children in need. This paper aims to develop short forms of child-report and proxy-report survey screening instruments for active dent...

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Main Authors: Di Xiong, Marvin Marcus, Carl A Maida, Yuetong Lyu, Ron D Hays, Yan Wang, Jie Shen, Vladimir W Spolsky, Steve Y Lee, James J Crall, Honghu Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299947&type=printable