A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: X How to avoid being misled by clinical studies’ results in dentistry

BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW: Clinicians using evidence to inform decisions on a daily basis have access to a number of tools to help them judge the importance of discriminating studies conducted using suboptimal methods from more rigorous ones. Many checklists have been developed to facilitate and guide clinicians to identify and critically appraise clinical studies. However, only limited guidance is available addressing how clinicians can identify …