Evidence-based Practice course for Dental Practice



This session describes the process of evidence-based practice.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Define evidence-based practice
- Describe how evidence-based practice adds to the quality of care
- List and describe the stages of evidence-based practice
Evidence-based practice is a structured approach that helps practitioners identify and understand the available evidence in order to provide patients with the best and most appropriate care to meet their needs.
Derek Richards is Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, Editor of the Evidence-based Dentistry Journal, Consultant in Dental Public Health with Forth Valley Health Board and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Dental Hospital.
Derek qualified from Cardiff Dental School in 1977 and came to public health dentistry after working in hospital, general and community dental practice. He helped to establish both the Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry and the Evidence-based Dentistry Journal.
Derek is a specialist advisor to the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness programme and was also involved in the York Review of water fluoridation and the NICE dental recall guideline. He has been involved with teaching EBD and a wide range of evidence-based initiatives both nationally and internationally since 1994.

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