Methods Inf Med 2020; 59(04/05): 119-130
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1718582
Original Article

The Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) Study: Protocol and Study Methods

Galit Almoznino
1   Big Biomedical Data Research Laboratory, Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
2   Department of Oral Medicine, Sedation and Maxillofacial Imaging, Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
3   Department of Endodontics, Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
,
Ron Kedem
4   Medical Information Department, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
,
Ronit Turgeman
5   Chief Dental Surgeon Headquarters, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
,
Tarif Bader
6   Surgeon General’s Headquarters, Israel Defense Forces, Ramat Gan and Department of Military Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
,
Nirit Yavnai
7   Medical Research and Academy Section, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Israel
,
Dorit Zur
4   Medical Information Department, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
,
Boaz Shay
3   Department of Endodontics, Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
› Author Affiliations

Abstract

Objectives To develop and present the methods utilized for the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) study.

Methods The DOME is an electronic record-based cross-sectional study, that was conducted to measure the dental, periodontal, and oral morbidities and their associations with systemic morbidities, among a nationally representative sample of young to middle-aged adults military personnel from the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). To that end, we developed a strict protocol including standardized terminology, data collection, and handling.

Results Data for the DOME study was derived simultaneously from three electronic records of the IDF: (1) a central demographic database, (2) the dental patient record (DPR), and (3) the medical computerized patient record (CPR). The established DOME repository includes socio-demographic, dental and medical records of 132,354 young to middle-age military personnel from the IDF, who attended the dental clinics during the year 2015. Records of general military personnel (N > 50,000), with no recorded dental visits during the study period, served as a control group regarding all other parameters except dental. The DOME study continues and is currently collecting longitudinal data from the year 2010 until 2020. The IDF employs a standardized uniform administrative and clinical work-up and treatment protocols as well as uniform computerized codes. We describe the standardized definitions for all the parameters that were included: socio-demographics, health-related habits, medical and dental attendance patterns, and general and dental health status. Multicollinearity analysis results of the sociodemographic and medical study parameters are presented.

Conclusion Standardized work-up and definitions are essential to establish the centralized DOME data repository to study the extent of dental and systemic morbidities and their associations.



Publication History

Received: 21 January 2020

Accepted: 28 August 2020

Article published online:
20 October 2020

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