Browsing by Author "Brignardello Petersen, Romina"

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    • A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: III: How to appraise and use an article about therapy 
      Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Azarpazhooh, Amir (American Dental Association, 2015)
      Copyright © 2015 American Dental Association.Background and Overview: Dental practitioners spend most of their time administering treatments. To ensure that their clinical decisions are informed by the best available ...
    • A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: V: How to appraise and use an article about diagnosis 
      Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Azarpazhooh, Amir (American Dental Association, 2015)
      Background and Overview Questions regarding diagnosis are common in dental practice. Studies in which investigators apply a diagnostic test and a reference standard to all patients and compare their results represent the ...
    • A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: VI: How to use a systematic review 
      Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon; Azarpazhooh, Amir (American Dental Association, 2015)
      Background and Overview. Dental practitioners face new clinical challenges on a daily basis. New treatment options and diagnostic tools are disseminated quickly, and the volume of articles and new evidence is overwhelming. ...
    • A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: VII: How to use patient management recommendations from ... 
      Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Neumann, Ignacio; Azarpazhooh, Amir (American Dental Association, 2015)
      © 2015 American Dental Association. All rights reserved.Background and Overview. Clinical practice guidelines represent highly processed evidence with associated recommendations to inform clinical practice and optimize ...
    • A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: X How to avoid being misled by clinical studies' results ... 
      Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Azarpazhooh, Amir; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon H. (American Dental Association, 2015)
      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 ...
    • Applying GRADE to a network meta-analysis of antidepressants led to more conservative conclusions 
      Bonner, Ashley; Alexander, Paul; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Furukawa, Toshi; Siemieniuk, Reed; Zhang, Yuan; Wiercioch, Wojtek; Florez, Ivan; Fei, Yutong; Agarwal, Arnav; Yepes-Nuñez, Juan; Beyene, Joseph; Schünemann, Holger; Guyatt, Gordon (Elsevier USA, 2018)
      Objective: To explore the impact of applying the Grading of Recommendations and Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to assess the certainty of the evidence in a published network meta-analysis (NMA) ...
    • Authors seldom report the most patient-important outcomes and absolute effect measures in systematic review ... 
      Agarwal, Arnav; Johnston, Bradley; Vernooij, Robin; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Neumann, Ignacio; Akl, Elie; Sun, Xin; Briel, Matthias; Busse, Jason; Ebrahim, Shanil; Granados, Carlos; Iorio, Alfonso; Irfan, Affan; Martínez García, Laura; Mustafa, Reem; Ramirez-Morera, Anggie; Selva, Anna; Solà, Ivan; Sanabrai, Andrea; Tikkinen, Kari; Vandvik, Per; Zhang, Yuqing; Zazueta, Oscar; Zhou, Qi; Schunemann, Holger J.; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Alonso Coello, Pablo (Elsevier USA, 2017)
      Objectives Explicit reporting of absolute measures is important to ensure treatment effects are correctly interpreted. We examined the extent to which authors report absolute effects for patient-important outcomes in ...
    • Do clinicians want recommendations? A multicenter study comparing evidence summaries with and without GRADE ... 
      Neumann, Ignacio; Alonso Coello, Pablo; Olav Vandvik, Per; Agoritsas, Thomas; Mas, Gemma; Akl, Elie; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Emparanza, José; McCullagh, Lauren; De Sitio, Catherine; McGinn, Thomas; Almodaimegh, Hind; Almodaimegh, Khalid; Rivera, Solange; Roja, Luis; Stirnemann, Jérôme; Irani, Jihad; Hlais, Sani; Mustafa, Reem; Bdair, Fadi; Aly, Abdelrahman; Kristiansen, Annette; Izcovich, Ariel; Ramirez, Anggie; Brozek, Jan; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Sch€unemann, Holger (Elsevier USA, 2018)
      Objectives: Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines provide recommendations to assist clinicians in decision-making and to reduce the gap between best current research evidence and clinical practice. However, some ...
    • Evaluation of the measurement properties of the Epworth sleepiness scale: A systematic review 
      Kendzerska, Tetyana B.; Smith, Peter M.; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Leung, Richard S.; Tomlinson, George (Elsevier, 2014)
      Objective: To examine published evidence on the psychometric properties of the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) for describing the level of daytime sleepiness (DS) in adults. Methods: Articles were located on MEDLINE and ...
    • GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks for adoption, adaptation, and de novo development of trustworthy ... 
      Schünemann, Holger; Wiercioch, Wojtek; Brozek, Jan; Etxeandia Ikobaltzeta, Itziar; Mustafa, Reem; Manja, Veena; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Neumann, Ignacio; Falavigna, Maicon; Alhazzani, Waleed; Santesso, Nancy; Zhang, Yuan; Meerpohl, Jörg; Morgan, Rebecc; Rochwerg, Bram; Darzi, Andrea; Ximenas Rojas, María; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; AlRayees, Zulfa; Riva, John; Bollig, Claudia; Moore, Ainsley; Yepes-Nuñez, Juan; Cuello, Carlos; Waziry, Reem; Akl, Elie A (Elsevier USA, 2017)
      Background Guideline developers can: (1) adopt existing recommendations from others; (2) adapt existing recommendations to their own context; or (3) create recommendations de novo. Monetary and nonmonetary resources, ...
    • Impacto de la reforma de salud en la autorizaciones sanitarias y autorizaciones de desempeño en instalaciones ... 
      González Sánchez, Maglie Carolina (Universidad de Chile, 2010)
      Los cambios introducidos a la legislación relacionada con la fiscalización en protección radiológica resultaron en un impacto positivo en el número de solicitudes de Autorización Sanitaria así como en el número de ...
    • Is adjuvant laser therapy effective for preventing pain, swelling, and trismus after surgical removal of ... 
      Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Araya, Ignacio; Yanine, Nicolas; Beyene, Joseph; Shah, Prakesh (2012)
      Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of low-level laser energy irradiation (LLEI) for decreasing pain, swelling, and trismus after surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars (IMTMs). Materials and Methods: ...
    • Matrix metalloproteinases and myeloperoxidase in gingival crevicular fluid provide site-specific diagnostic ... 
      Leppilahti, Jussi; Hernández Ríos, Patricia; Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio; Tervahartiala, Taina; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Mantyla, Paivi; Sorsa, Timo; Hernández, Marcela (2014)
      Aim: To identify the diagnostic accuracy of gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) candidate biomarkers to discriminate periodontitis from the inflamed and healthy sites, and to compare the performance of two independent matrix ...
    • Methodological survey of designed uneven randomization trials (DU-RANDOM): a protocol 
      Wu, Darong; Akl, Elie A.; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Devereaux, Philip J.; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Prediger, Barbara; Patel, Krupesh; Patel, Namrata; Lu, Taoying; Zhang, Yuan; Falavigna, Maicon; Santesso, Nancy; Mustafa, Reem A.; Zhou, Qi; Briel, Matthias; Schünemann, Holger J. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)
      Background: Although even randomization (that is, approximately 1:1 randomization ratio in study arms) provides the greatest statistical power, designed uneven randomization (DUR), (for example, 1:2 or 1:3) is used to ...
    • Neoplasias malignas bucales registradas en el Instituto de Referencia de Patología Oral de la Universidad ... 
      Brignardello Petersen, Romina (Universidad de Chile, 2007)
      La Federación Dental Internacional reconoce que el cáncer oral es un tema grave dentro de la salud pública a nivel mundial. En frecuencia se encuentra dentro de los diez tipos de cáncer con mayor incidencia a través ...
    • Nonrestorative Treatments for Caries: Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis 
      Urquhart, O.; Tampi, M. P.; Pilcher, L.; Slayton, R. L.; Araujo, M. W.B.; Fontana, M.; Guzmán-Armstrong, S.; Nascimento, M. M.; Nový, B. B.; Tinanoff, N.; Weyant, R. J.; Wolff, M. S.; Young, D. A.; Zero, D. T.; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Banfield, L.; Parikh, A.; Joshi, G (SAGE Publications Inc., 2019)
      © International & American Associations for Dental Research 2018.The goal of nonrestorative or non- and microinvasive caries treatment (fluoride- and nonfluoride-based interventions) is to manage the caries disease process ...
    • Oral health care for patients with epidermolysis bullosa : best clinical practice guidelines : october 2011 
      Krämer Strenger, Susanne; Serrano, María Concepción; Zillmann Geerdts, Gisela del Carmen; Gálvez, Pablo; Carrasco Labra, Raúl; Villanueva Maffei, Julio; Araya Cabello, Ignacio; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Cornejo Ovalle, Marco; Oliva, Patricio; Yanine Montaner, Nicolás (DEBRA Chile, 2011-10)
    • Professionally-applied chemically-induced whitening of teeth in adults 
      Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Yanine, Nicolás; Araya, Ignacio; Rada, Gabriel; Graham Chadwick, R. (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2013)
      This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of tooth whitening products developed to be professionally-applied with chemical, bleaching action (in-office). ...
    • Secondary versus primary closure techniques for the prevention of postoperative complications following ... 
      Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Yanine, Nicolás; Araya, Ignacio; Guyatt, Gordon (2012)
      Purpose: To determine the impact of secondary versus primary closure techniques on the frequency and severity of pain, facial swelling, trismus, infectious complications, and postoperative bleeding after impacted mandibular ...
    • The GRADE evidence-to-decision framework: A report of its testing and application in 15 international ... 
      Neumann, Ignacio; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Wiercioch, Wojtek; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Cuello, Carlos; Akl, Elie A; Mustafa, Reem; Al-Hazzani, Waleed; Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Itziar; Rojas, María; Falavigna, Maicon; Santesso, Nancy; Brozek, Jan; Iorio, Alf; Alonso-Coello, Pablo; Schünemann, Holger (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)
      Background: Judgments underlying guideline recommendations are seldom recorded and presented in a systematic fashion. The GRADE Evidence-to-Decision Framework (EtD) offers a transparent way to record and report guideline ...