Research Guides: Clinical Decision-Making Resources for Dentistry: Organizations

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American Dental Association Evidence-Based Dentistry
A very good resource for comprehensive clinical practice guidelines, covering topics such as managing dental pain, caries treatments, and antibiotic usage etc. It includes systematic reviews summarizing scientific literature on Teledentistry, HPV vaccine effectiveness and caries detection technologies. Educational resources, including instructional videos, are also available to help incorporate scientific evidence into clinical practice.
Canadian Dental Association
Contains information about oral health, becoming a dentist, various services and resources, and so on.
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Makes evidence-based recommendations on the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions
Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry
Promotes evidence-based dentistry worldwide. An independent body linked with the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford (U.K.).
Centre for Health Evidence
University of Alberta
Engages in projects and partnerships that promote evidence-based practice.
Cochrane Oral Health Group
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions. The Cochrane Oral Health Group aims to produce systematic reviews which primarily include all randomised controlled trials (RCT's) of oral health.
Health Information Research Unit
McMaster University
Conducts research in health information science and is dedicated to the development of new information resources to support evidence-based health care.
JCDA
Journal of the Canadian Dental Association.
JCDA Express
An online newsletter which aims to bring the users "concise information about important developments in the dental and biomedical literature pertinent to Canadian dental practitioners". In each issue, the experts recommended some clinically oriented articles and briefly explained the reason of their suggestions.
JCDA Oasis
(the Online Advice and Searchable Information System) - Clinical decision support service being created by dentists, for dentists.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) (U.S.)
Conducts and supports research in the areas of oral, dental and craniofacial health.
The Forsyth Institute
The Fosyth institute conducts research in various oral-health related initiatives in addition to community outreach in order to better public health.

National Guideline Clearinghouse This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. Search or browse by disease, treatment/intervention or organization. Citations and abstracts are provided for all guidelines, with links to full-text or information about print copies. Produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.

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