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ReviewThe Journal of international medical research2020

Judgment and decision-making in clinical dentistry.

Liviu Feller, Johan Lemmer, Mbulaheni Simon Nemutandani, Raoul Ballyram, Razia Abdool Gafaar Khammissa

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Review in The Journal of international medical research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Situational Awareness in the Context of Clinical Practice.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  11. Errors in clinical diagnosis: a narrative review.The Journal of international medical research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Liviu FellerOffice of the Chair of School, School of Oral Health Sciences. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5221-7805
Johan LemmerDepartment of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, School of Oral Health Sciences. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mbulaheni Simon NemutandaniChair of School of Oral Health Sciences. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Raoul BallyramDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, 37715Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa.
Razia Abdool Gafaar KhammissaDepartment of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences. 56410University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of clinical judgment and decision-making skills is complex, requiring clinicians-whether students, novices, or experienced practitioners-to correlate information from their own experience; from discussions with colleagues; from attending professional meetings, conferences and congresses; and from studying the current literature. Feedback from treated cases will consolidate retention in memory of the complexities and management of past cases, and the conversion of this knowledge base into daily clinical practice. The purpose of this narrative review is to discuss factors related to clinical judgment and decision-making in clinical dentistry and how both narrative, intuitive, evidence-based data-driven information and statistical approaches contribute to the global process of gaining clinical expertise.

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Decision MakingJudgmentClinical Decision-MakingDentistryHumansClinical judgmentclinical practicecognitive executive functiondecision-making in dentistrydental educationnarrative review

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PMID33249958
PMCPMC7708710

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