European Fissure Sealant Guidelines: assessment using AGREE II
| Autor: | L San Martin-Galindo, C Abalos-Labruzzi, Richard Niederman, FJ Rodriguez-Lozano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Pit and Fissure Sealants medicine.medical_specialty Future studies Dental Caries 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Dentistry (miscellaneous) Guideline development Fissure sealant Agree ii Medical physics 030212 general & internal medicine Child Quality assessment business.industry Occlusal caries 030206 dentistry Guideline Clinical Practice Europe Treatment Outcome Practice Guidelines as Topic business |
| Zdroj: | International journal of dental hygiene. 15(1) |
| ISSN: | 1601-5037 |
| Popis: | Background Pit and fissure sealants are effective in reducing the incidence of occlusal caries, and multiple clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed for recommending their proper use. The usefulness of CPGs depends on their quality and on the rigour of the guideline development process. Objective A study was made to assess the quality of current European CPGs based on the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) instrument, which uses 23 key items rated on a 7-point scale to assess practice guideline development and the quality of reporting. Methods A search was conducted for fissure sealant guidelines for preventing caries in children and adults at high and low risk published in the last 10 years. Calibration was carried out before scoring to assess agreement between the appraisers using the AGREE II instrument. Results The searches identified 19 relevant guidelines, and following application of the inclusion/exclusion criteria, three guidelines were retained for evaluation. The proportion of observed agreement was calculated, expressed by the agreement separately for positive and negative ratings (PA = 0.89, NA = 0–91). The results of the guideline assessments revealed the highest score for the Irish guideline, a moderate score for the French guideline and the lowest score for the European guideline. Conclusions Based on the AGREE II instrument, the results obtained show significant variation in the quality assessment of the three European Fissure Sealant Guidelines. Future studies should be carried out both to develop quality dental CPGs and to investigate effective ways of adopting them. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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