Guidelines, Recommendations and Evidence-based Practices Resource Links
The National Maternal & Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) collects and shares information about a variety of resources, including materials such as standards, guidelines, curricula, teaching guides, manuals, policies, and reports. ASTDD is collaborating with OHRC to compile resource materials related to Best Practice Approaches for state & community oral health programs.
The MMWR article describes the state health agencies’ focus on core functions of public health (i.e., assessment, policy development, and assurance) to improve health in the United States.
The Guidelineswere developed to provide a framework of feasible core functions for state oral health programs. This document includes sections on: Current Oral Health Issues, Capacity and Infrastructure, a listing of the Essential Public Health Services to Promote Oral Health in the United States, and Examples of Essential Public Health Activities.
The document focuses on building infrastructure and capacity for dental public health programs administered by state and territorial health agencies and assesses the resources needed to maintain fully effective dental public health programs at the state and territorial levels.
The document addresses the need to establish a strong dental public health infrastructure within HRSA as a prerequisite to addressing and meeting the oral health access needs of the underserved of the Nation.
Guide to Community Preventive Services - Oral Health
Provides recommendations on population-based interventions to promote health and to prevent disease, injury, disability, and premature death, appropriate for use by communities and healthcare systems.
The recommendations in this August 2001 report guide dental and other health-care providers, public health officials, policy makers, and the public in the use of fluoride to achieve maximum protection against dental caries while using resources efficiently and reducing the likelihood of enamel fluorosis.
Best Practices Initiatives, Models, and Case Studies
Best Practice Initiative from the Assistant Secretary of Health
The Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will showcase best practices in public health from around the country to foster an environment of peer learning and collaboration.
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices - Oral Health
The mission of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices is to help Governors and their key policy staff develop and implement innovative solutions to governance and policy challenges facing them in their states. Links are provided on the website as resources to states participating in the NGA Policy Academies on Improving Oral Health Care for Children.
Evidence-Based Practices and Recommendations
Best evidence is a term that refers to information obtained from randomized controlled clinical trials, non-randomized controlled clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, crossover studies, cross-sectional studies or, in the absence of scientific evidence, the consensus opinion of experts in the appropriate fields of research or clinical practice. The strength of the evidence follows the order of the studies or opinions listed. (Source: NHS Research and Development Centre for Evidence-based Medicine)
Bandolier
Bandolier is a print and Internet journal about health care, using evidence-based medicine techniques to provide advice about particular treatments or diseases for healthcare professionals and consumers. The content is "tertiary" publishing, distilling the information from (secondary) reviews of (primary) trials and making it comprehensible.
Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry
The Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry is an independent body whose aim is to promote evidence based dentistry world-wide. The Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry website includes information about the Centre, news of forthcoming events, and a host of links to evidence-based tools and resources.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) was established in January 1994 to provide the NHS with important information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organization of health care. CRD, by offering rigorous and systematic reviews on selected topics, a database of good quality reviews and an information service, helps to promote research-based practice in the NHS.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a pioneering resource which was initiated by the Cochrane Collaboration. The collaboration was formed to prepare, maintain and disseminate reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions, as well as assessing evidence related to prevention strategies and treatment. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Abstracts of reviews can be viewed online free of charge.
Cochrane Oral Health Group
The Cochrane Oral Health Group is part of the Cochrane Collaboration (one of the Collaborative Review Groups). It aims to produce systematic reviews which primarily include all randomized controlled trials (RCT's) of oral health. The website lists abstracts of Cochrane Reviews produced by the Cochrane Oral Health Group.
Effective Health Care Bulletins
Effective Health Care is a bi-monthly bulletin for decision makers which examines the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
NICE is the independent organization responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. Its role is to provide patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current "best practice". The guidance will cover both individual health technologies and the clinical management of specific conditions.
Netting the Evidence
An extensive resource from the University of Sheffield School of Health & Related Research that points to every key Evidence Based Practice resource from journals, databases and organizations to software, appraisal and implementation information.
PubMed Clinical Queries
This specialized search is intended for clinicians and has built-in search filters. Four study categories - therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis - are provided, and you may indicate whether you wish your search to be more sensitive (i.e., include most relevant articles but probably including some less relevant ones) or more specific (i.e. including mostly relevant articles but probably omit a few).
TRIP Database
Turning Research into Practice (TRIP) is a searchable database of 63 Evidence Based Practice sites around the world including Bandolier, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Critically Appraised Topics (CAT) Bank, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Effective Health Care Bulletins and National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database. At present there are over 15,000 links to evidence based topics.
