Mount Sinai Hospital Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Evidence-Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty...

Making decisions in dentistry should be based on the best evidence available. The objective of this study was to demonstrate a practical procedure and model that clinicians can use to apply the results of well-conducted studies to patient care by critically appraising the evidence with checklists and letter grade scales. To demonstrate application of this model for critically appraising the qua...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to study the knowledge, attitude and practice of the pediatricians toward infant oral healthcare and the objective was to determine what can improve the knowledge, attitude and practice toward infant oral healthcare. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic random survey of pediatricians in Mysore received a questionnaire pertaining to individual details, knowle...

The expansion of evidence-based dentistry (EBD) is essential to the continued growth and development of the dental profession. Expanding EBD requires increased emphasis on critical thinking skills during dental education, as noted in the American Dental Education Association's Competencies for the New General Dentist. In order to achieve this goal, educational exercises must be introduced to in...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) is becoming popular all over the world with the increasing global involvement of dental practitioners in the debates on the relevance or otherwise of EBD. However, very little has been known on the evolutionary trend of EBD in the developing countries of the world. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This pilot study was designed to assess the state of EBD in the acc...

BACKGROUND "Pay for performance" is an incentive system that has been gaining acceptance in medicine and is currently being considered for implementation in dentistry. However, it remains unclear whether pay for performance can effect significant and lasting changes in provider behavior and quality of care. Provider acceptance will likely increase if pay for performance programs reward true qua...

knowledge translation is a process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and application of knowledge to improve the health, services and products in this study we have attempted to examine the knowledge translation practice and its perceived barriers on the universalities and research institutes (research sector) in iran.both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. in the...

The extent to which this allegation is val id can be a matter for discuss ion. An observation, however, is that at the t ime this editorial was published, a number of initiatives within an evidence-based context could be found in the prosthodontic literature. The latest and most notable ve nture is the publi ca t ion of the "Evi dence-Based Dentistry Series" in The Journal of Prosthetic Dentist...