Development of a Clinical Guideline to Predict Undiagnosed Diabetes in Dental Patients

In 2007, 17.9 million people in the United States had diagnosed diabetes, and 5.7 million had undiagnosed diabetes. The authors developed a clinical guideline to help dentists identify patients with undiagnosed diabetes.The authors used classification and regression tree (CART) methods to generate different prediction models using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) (1988-1994) and data from NHANES...