Methodological Quality of Consensus Guidelines in Implant Dentistry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Consensus guidelines are useful to improve clinical decision making. Therefore, the methodological evaluation of these guidelines is of paramount importance. Low quality information may guide to inadequate or harmful clinical decisions.

Objective

To evaluate the methodological quality of consensus guidelines published in implant dentistry using a validated methodological instrument.

Methods

The six implant dentistry journals with impact factors were scrutinised for consensus guidelines related to implant dentistry. Two assessors independently selected consensus guidelines, and four assessors independently evaluated their methodological quality using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument. Disagreements in the selection a

SUBMITTER: Faggion CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5249121 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature