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DENTAL PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES UPDATE 2024
1State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center for Evidence-Based Stomatology, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center for Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry at Optics Valley Branch, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Division of Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
As the medical field develops rapidly towards evidence-based, personalized and intelligent care, patient-reported outcomes (PRO) related research is becoming increasingly refined in terms of coverage, precision and practicability. In order to help improve the quality and quantity of patient-centered evidence in dentistry and to further promote the wide and standard use of dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) and dental patient-reported outcome measures (dPROMs), the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice has put together this Special Issue, the fourth of a series entitled Dental Patient-Reported Outcomes Update. A total of 7 solicited articles are included in this issue. To put them into a broader perspective, this review provides a concise summary of key, selected PRO and dPRO articles published during 2024. A brief introduction to those articles included in this Special Issue follows. Four main domains are covered in this Special Issue: (i) dPROs and general health, (ii) standardization of dPRO-related methodology, (iii) methodological considerations in dPRO-related research, and (iv) current usage of dPROs and dPROMs in published research.
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