Ch. 22 Best Practices for Periodontal Care
Best Practice: refers to practices/treatments/therapies that are based on the best available evidence
Goal - use of concepts/treatments/therapies that are based on the best available evidence
Contributing factors
direct access to rapidly emerging clinical research information
not all studies are significant to clinical care
active patient role in decision making
new does not necessarily mean better
associations are not the same as cause and effect
foundational elements of evidence based health care
scientific evidence
clinical experience and judgement
patient preferences or values
evidence
best evidence - highest level of evidence available for a specific clinical evidence
levels of evidence - ranking system used in eveidence based care to describe the strength of the results measured in a clinical trial or research study
systemic reviews
single randomized controlled trial
expert opinion
cohort studies
case-controlled studies, case series/reports
strategy for finding clinically relevant evidence
Step 1: Formulate a PICO question
Step 2: Search secondary resources
Step 3: Search Primary resources