What is it about?
How there are significant limitations to the usefulness of needs assessments. How data used for commissioning of services needs to be up to date and wide ranging to facilitate good and appropriate decision making
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Why is it important?
Measuring inappropriately, or the wrong parameters and/or the misinterpretation of data can lead to poor or inappropriate decisions, which can subsequently impact on patient care
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This paper aims to highlight the difficulties of carrying out needs assessments, the implications this can have on commissioning of services and the great significance which can result on patient care.
Dr Richard John Cure
University of Warwick
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This page is a summary of: Experiences of the challenges of undertaking an orthodontic needs assessment within the National Health Service in England, Journal of Orthodontics, May 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1465312519842877.
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