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ArticleJDR clinical and translational research2024

Fit for Purpose? The Suitability of Oral Health Outcome Measures to Inform Policy.

T M Nguyen, H Rogers, G D Taylor, U Tonmukayakul, C Lin, M Hall, H Calache, C Vernazza

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Article in JDR clinical and translational research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Observational
  2. Economic evaluation on dental caries preventive interventions for Australian children using a priority-setting approach.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

T M NguyenDeakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9986-7629
H RogersDental Health Services Victoria, Carlton, VIC, Australia.
G D TaylorDental Health Services Victoria, Carlton, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9369-917X
U TonmukayakulDeakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
C LinPublic Health & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
M HallPublic Health & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
H CalacheDeakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
C VernazzaDental Health Services Victoria, Carlton, VIC, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

knowledge transfer statementOral health research and program evaluation should consider alternative outcome measures for population oral health other than the DMFT index.

Indexed as

Dental CariesOral HealthHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CarePolicydental carieshealth economicshealth-related quality of lifepatient preferencepopulation healthpublic health dentistry

Identifiers

PMID37554046
PMCPMC10943604

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