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SynthesisCommunity dentistry and oral epidemiology2019

Quality measures for dental care: A systematic review.

Amy Joyce Righolt, Grigory Sidorenkov, Clovis Mariano Faggion, Stefan Listl, Denise Duijster

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Synthesis in Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Amy Joyce RigholtDepartment of Dentistry - Quality and Safety of Oral Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0170-8679
Grigory SidorenkovDepartment of Dentistry - Quality and Safety of Oral Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Clovis Mariano FaggionDepartment of Periodontology and Operative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Stefan ListlDepartment of Dentistry - Quality and Safety of Oral Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8176-3397
Denise DuijsterDepartment of Social Dentistry, Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLAcademic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam · NLUniversity Medical Center Groningen · NLUniversity of Münster · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis systematic review aimed to (a) provide an overview of existing quality measures in the field of oral health care, and to (b) evaluate the scientific soundness and applicability of these quality measures.

methodsA systematic search was conducted in three electronic databases MEDLINE (via PubMed), EMBASE (via OVID) and LILACS (via BIREME). The search was restricted to articles published between 2002 and 2018. Publications reporting on the development process or clinimetric properties of oral health care quality measures for outpatient oral health care in dental practices were included. The identified publications reporting on oral health care quality measures were critically appraised with the Appraisal of Indicators through Research and Evaluation 2.0 (AIRE 2.0) instrument to evaluate the soundness and applicability of the measures.

resultsThe search strategy resulted in 2541 unique and potentially relevant articles. In total, 24 publications were included yielding 215 quality measures. The critical appraisal showed a large variation in the quality of the included publications (AIRE scores ranging from 38 to 78 out of 80 possible points). The majority of measures (n = 71) referred to treatment and preventive services. Comparably, few measures referred to the domain patient safety (n = 3). The development process of measures often exhibited a lack of involvement of patients and dental professionals. Few projects reported on the validity (n = 2) and reliability (n = 3) of the measures. Four projects piloted the measures for implementation in practice.

conclusionsThis systematic review provides an overview of the status quo with respect to existing quality measures in oral health care. Potential opportunities include the piloting and testing of quality measures and the establishment of suitable information systems that allow the provision of transparent routine feedback on the quality of oral health care.

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Dental CareOral HealthQuality of Health CareHumansReproducibility of Resultsappraisal of indicatorspatient-centred outcomesquality improvementquality measurementquality of oral careroutine feedback

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PMID30375669
PMCPMC7379624
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