Enhancing the quality of reporting of orthodontic clinical research

Research reports need to provide complete, accurate, and transparent information to allow readers to easily understand and critically assess the study results. Poor reporting makes studies unable to be synthesized in systematic reviews, fail to inform clinical practice, and compromise evidence-based clinical decision making. Evidence suggested the reporting quality of orthodontic clinical studies was poor, which caused a large amount of avoidable research waste. Reporting guidelines (RGs) are developed to guide and standardize the reporting of specific study types and improve their reporting quality.

Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 25, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Danchen Qin, Hong He, Yu-Kang Tu, Fang Hua Source Type: research