Quality of Clinical Guidelines on Oral Care for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Robust evidence-based guidelines are important in everyday clinical practice, especially when delivering and managing oral care needs to a vulnerable group such as children with special healthcare needs (SHCNs).

Methods

To assess the quality of guidelines on the management of oral care for children with special healthcare needs (SHCNs) and to find appropriate guidelines, an electronic search of MEDLINE Ovid was carried out alongside an additional search of common guideline websites. The AGREE II tool was used to assess the quality of the guidelines. Assessment was undertaken independently by three assessors. Furthermore, the underlying evidence used to formulate recommendations in the identified guidelines was qualitatively assessed.

Results

There were nine guidelines, with 4

SUBMITTER: Alamri H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9914149 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature