title: [Selection criteria for dental software].
abstract: Dentists who wish to introduce a computer based patient record system in their office are confronted with a lack of information concerning the selection of dental software. As wishes and demands concerning the content and options given by a dental computer program can vary widely from dentist to dentist and as dental software is changing rapidly a global objective evaluation is of no practical validity. Therefore a list of general and specific selection criteria was developed, enabling the practitioner to make a personal, objective comparison of quality of content versus wishes, price and service of different dental software programs. The criteria are discussed in this article.
authors.affiliation: L.S.D., Parodontologue, Etterbeek.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Poppelsdorf
mesh_terms: D016287:Computer Peripherals; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003657:Decision Making; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011215:Practice Management, Dental; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface