Assessing the quality of dental clinical practice guidelines

Conclusion Overall, the quality of clinical dental practice guidelines is suboptimal. There is variation in the overall quality, reporting of individual items and domains of the AGREE II instrument between different dental speciality clinical practice guidelines. Guidelines based on formal evidence achieved higher quality scores. Clinical Significance Clinicians should be aware of the variation in the quality of dental clinical guidelines in particular related to methodological rigour. The use of formal evidence may be a useful indicator of their quality prior to their implementation.

Source: Journal of Dentistry - October 12, 2017 Category: Dentistry Source Type: research