Evidence based clinical practice: why and how to apply it in pediatric dentistry
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Evidence-Based Practice, Pediatric Dentistry, Child HealthAbstract
Practices in the health field are traditionally based on clinical experience, text-books or studies of low methodological quality. The aim of the present study was to demonstrate to clinicians who treat children the importance of seeking the best evidence available in scientific sources of information. A further aim was to present tools for pediatric dentists to be able to find the best possible evidence and apply it to their clinical practice. Traditional clinical practice models based on the opinion of authorities, physiopathological reasoning, surrogate outcomes and preliminary evidence are first presented. Next, the importance of evidence-based clinical practice is stressed and exemplified. A routine is then outlined to allow clinicians to employ an evidencebased practice model, including a question that summarizes clinical doubts, a search of the literature, the selection of the best scientific evidence and the application of this evidence during decision making in clinical practice.
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