ArticleBritish dental journal2015
Contemporary views of dental practitioners' on patient safety.
Article in British dental journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Essential Attributes of a Successful Dentist: A Quantitative Study of Dental Students at a University in Mainland China.Dentistry journal · 2026Article
- Understanding patient safety in dentistry: evaluating the present and envisioning the future-a narrative review.BMJ open quality · 2024Review
- How Do Dental Clinicians Obtain Up-To-Date Patient Medical Histories? Modeling Strengths, Drawbacks, and Proposals for Improvements.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
- Preventing Wrong Tooth Extraction.Acta stomatologica Croatica · 2021Article
- Relationships between dental hygienists' work environment and patient safety culture.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Interviews and focus groups in qualitative research: an update for the digital age.British dental journal · 2018Article
- Dentists are humans too - education in human factors within dental care.British dental journal · 2018Article
- Patient safety in dentistry: development of a candidate 'never event' list for primary care.British dental journal · 2017Article
- Patient safety: reducing the risk of wrong tooth extraction.British dental journal · 2017Article
- The complexity of patient safety reporting systems in UK dentistry.British dental journal · 2016Article
- Review of never and serious events related to dentistry 2005-2014.British dental journal · 2016Article
- Surgical safety checklists and understanding of Never Events, in UK and Irish dental hospitals.British dental journal · 2016Article
- Patient safety: Scottish Patient Safety Programme.British dental journal · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThere is little known about general dental practitioners' (GDPs) views on patient safety in dentistry; we believe this to be the first paper describing their opinions and ideas for maintaining or improving safe practices.
methodsFocus groups were used to gather the views of 12 GDPs (who also hold university teaching contracts) on the following topics: Defining patient safety, the important issues in patient safety, safeguards and tools for maintaining safe care, never events and research priorities. Thematic analysis was performed on the verbatim transcripts.
resultsKey themes from the practitioners included: Medical history (polypharmacy and co-morbidities), competence and skill level, the use of safeguards and tools to ensure safety, the importance of effective communication (including working with a chaperone) and the role of reflective practice. Suggestions for improvement included: effective sharing of information with other healthcare professionals, easy access to guidelines and educational tools, adoption of practice protocols, team working and the use of universal charting systems to limit ambiguity.
conclusionsGDPs are well versed in the concept of patient safety and are keen to implement evidence based tools and/or interventions designed to improve safety for their patients.
Indexed as
Identifiers
26657441What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.