Seeking adverse effects in systematic reviews of orthodontic interventions: protocol for a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Before implementing healthcare interventions, clinicians need to weigh the beneficial and adverse effects of interventions. However, a large body of evidence has demonstrated that seeking and reporting of adverse effects is suboptimal in clinical trials and in systematic reviews of interventions. This cross-sectional study will investigate the status of this problem in orthodontics. This study will assess whether adverse effects were sought and whether findings related to adverse effects were reported in systematic reviews of orthodontic interventions in the five leading orthodontic journals and in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Methods

Systematic reviews of clinical orthodontic interventions published between 01 August 2009 and 31 July 2019 in the f

SUBMITTER: Steegmans PAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6449933 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature