Expanding the grading of recommendations assessment, development, and evaluation (EX-GRADE) for evidence-based clinical recommendations: Validation study

Open Dentistry Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-40

  Phi, Linda ^a   Ajaj, Reem ^a,b   Ramchandani, Manisha H ^a   Brant, Xenia M C ^a,c   Oluwadara, Oluwadayo ^a   Polinovsky, Olga ^a   Moradi, David ^a   Barkhordarian, Andre ^a   Sriphanlop, Pathu ^a   Ong, Margaret ^a   Giroux, Amy ^a   Lee, Justin ^a   Siddiqui, Muniza ^a   Ghodousi, Nora ^a   Chiappelli, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AMSTAR; Bleaching; Clinical Significance; CPA; CPAP versus Oral Appliance; Evidence Based Clinical Practice; Evidence Based Decision Making; Evidence Based Dentistry; Evidence Based Medicine; GRADE; Hypoxia; In office Beaching; In office Whitening; Quality of Evidence; Revised AMSTAR; Sleep Apnea; Strength of Clinical Relevance; Strength of Recommendation; Systematic Review; Vaccination; Vaccination and Autism; Whitening; Wong scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863050422     PISSN: 18742106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601206010031     Document Type: Review

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