Medisan (Jun 2023)
Quality of emergency dental care in times of COVID-19
Abstract
Introduction: The evaluation of health care quality has its particularities regarding the industrial or services quality in general sense. Objective: To evaluate the quality of the emergency dental care in times of COVID-19. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of 6 dentists who worked during the study in the Emergency Dental Service of Josué País García Teaching Polyclinic was carried out in Santiago de Cuba, and 120 users selected by means of a systematic sampling, assisted in this service from October, 2020 to January, 2022. The analyzed variables were structure, care quality and satisfaction. An external and concurrent evaluation of the quality in the components structure, process and result was carried out. Implicit and explicit, descriptive and normative, indicators and standard approaches were taken as reference. Also, the survey as method for collecting the information and the percentage as summary measure were used. Results: It was obtained that the components structure and process were evaluated as appropriate; the first one, with 76.4%, above the standard, and the second, with 100.0% regarding professional competence, as well as 72.2% in the professional performance. As for the component result, 81.8% of the users' satisfaction was reached; however, the satisfaction of suppliers was inadequate. Conclusions: The care quality in the Emergency Dental Service of Josué País García Teaching Polyclinic was appropriate.
