Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to solve the repressed demand for primary dental care in the Brazilian Unified Health System due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled study protocol nested with a before-and-after study including economic analysis

• Main Authors: Karina Haibara Natal (Author), Thais Gomes Machado (Author), Fabiana Bracco (Author), Luiz Ivan Lemos (Author), Maria Eduarda Vigano (Author), Gabriela Manco Machado (Author), Jhandira Daibelis Yampa-Vargas (Author), Daniela Prócida Raggio (Author), Fausto Medeiros Mendes (Author), José Carlos Pettorossi Imparato (Author), Edson Hilan Gomes Lucena (Author), Yuri Wanderley Cavalcanti (Author), Cícero Inacio Silva (Author), Guido Lemos Souza Filho (Author), Mary Caroline Skelton Macedo (Author), Fernanda Campos Almeida Carrer (Author), Mariana Minatel Braga (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background With the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of children had their dental care interrupted or postponed, generating a pent-up demand for primary care. To minimize the impact of this outage, information and communication technologies (ICT) could be an alternative. The aim of this study i...