Description:
This course focuses on specific
and easy-to-understand steps for understanding the scientific evidence and how it
can be used in practice.
Learning
Objectives:
- Articulate differences between EBD and traditional approaches to making
clinical decisions
- Explain how EBD incorporates research evidence, along with clinical
expertise and patient preferences
- Identify role of research design
- Describe levels of evidence in science and practice
- Understand biases and limitations associated with published research
- Gain a basic understanding of statistics terminology
Abstract:
Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) is based on three important domains: the best
available scientific evidence, a dentist's clinical skill and judgment, and each
individual patient's needs and preferences. This course focuses on how EBD
differs from a traditional approach to making clinical decisions, explains how
EBD incorporates evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences, and
covers the basics of research design, levels of evidence, statistical concepts
and the limitations of published research.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Evidence Based Dentistry
- Traditional Decision-Making approach
- Clinical Examples (1-3)
- Evidence Based Dentistry as a 5-step process
- The Evidence Pyramid and how it can be used through EBD in dental practice
- Research designs
- Interventional Designs
- Observational Designs
- Narrative Review
- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
- Critical Summaries and EB Treatment
- Recommendations
- Basic Statistics: P<.05, confidence intervals, null hypothesis, forest
plots
- Why is published research so sensitive to bias?
- Summary of covered topics
