Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Optimizing Clinical Outcomes

Abstract

The Science of Research Synthesis in Clinical Decision-Making.- Introduction: Research Synthesis in Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making.- Overview, Strengths, and Limitations of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.- Understanding and Interpreting Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Results.- Making Evidence-Based Decisions.- Making Evidence-Based Decisions in Nursing.- A Model for Implementing Evidence-Based Decisions in Dental Practice.- Evidence-Based Decisions in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Cardiac Disease.- Bringing Evidence Basis to Decision Making in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Prakriti (Constitution) Analysis in Ayurveda.- Evidence-Based Clinical Decisions in Oral Surgery.- Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Clinical Outcomes.- Evidence-Based Issues in Maxillofacial Trauma.- Strengths and Limitations of the Evidence-Based Movement Aimed to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Dentistry and Oral Surgery.- Evidence-Based Decision for Pharmacological Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease and Alcohol Dependence.- Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, a Bibliometric Evidence-Based Approach to Analysis.- The Efficacy of Horizontal and Vertical Bone Augmentation Procedures for Dental Implants: A Cochrane Systematic Review.- Conclusion: Toward Optimization of the Evidence-Based Paradigm in Medicine and Dentistry.- Evidence-Based Medicine: What does it Mean and Where Are We Going?.- Future Avenues of Research Synthesis for Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Making.