PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Abeer Aljaber AU - Khaled Al-Surimi TI - Promoting oral health practice among patients with diabetes attending primary health care clinics AID - 10.1136/bmjquality.u209172.w3737 DP - 2015 Jan 01 TA - BMJ Quality Improvement Reports PG - u209172.w3737 VI - 4 IP - 1 4099 - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/4/1/u209172.w3737.short 4100 - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/4/1/u209172.w3737.full SO - BMJ Qual Improv Report2015 Jan 01; 4 AB - The oral public health program for patients with diabetes was initiated by Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MoH) based on international quality standard to control the severity of oral disease in patients with diabetes through improving the accessibility of patients to dental clinics in primary health care centers (PHCC). This program intends to deliver oral health care (OHC) for each patient with diabetes at least one visit every six months. However, we found that more than 90% of patients with diabetes that visited prince Mohammed bin Saud PHCC in Riyadh do not get their regular dental check up every six months. We developed a quality improvement project (QIP) using the quality improvement model to activate MoH oral health program for patients with diabetes visiting prince Mohamed bin Saud PHCC.The aim of our QIP was to increase number of patients with diabetes receiving their regular oral health check up during the PHC visit. The quality team tested two simple improvement ideas. The first idea was having the dentist signature on appointment request. The testing of the first idea led to the second idea, that both physician and dentist should sign the referral form. After running several PDSA cycles to test these interventions ideas, we found the number of patients with diabetes seen in dental clinic had increased dramatically compared with the baseline assessment. We conclude that the idea of signing the referral form by both physician and dentist is a practical and simple strategy to be executed and has a direct impact on the patient clinical flow between clinics.