ArticleInternational dental journal2011
Quality of randomised controlled trials in dentistry.
Article in International dental journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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Abstract
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are regarded as the best study designs to test the efficacy of medical and dental intervention. Many reports, however, have shown that at the moment the quality of dental RCT reports is still poor, and further efforts to improve it are necessary. It has been suggested that trials that are not well designed provide biased estimates of the treatment effects and that a journal's impact factor is not related to the quality of RCTs published. For these reasons, before trusting RCT reports, a careful assessment of the study selected is needed. Randomisation, blinding, allocation concealment, drop outs analysis are essential quality components of RCTs. Many systems for RCTs quality assessment are available. In this report the concept of quality of RCTs will be critically evaluated and the most commonly used instruments available for quality assessment of RCTs in dental research will be reviewed.
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