A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: VII: How to use patient management recommendations from clinical practice guidelines.
BACKGROUND
Clinical practice guidelines represent highly processed evidence with associated recommendations to inform clinical practice and optimize patient care. Appropriately developed, evidence-based recommendations will integrate the best evidence regarding benefits and harms, the certainty of the evidence, patients' values and preferences, and resource utilization.


CONCLUSIONS
The authors provide a structure for clinicians to critically appraise clinical practice guidelines to determine whether the guidelines offer trustworthy recommendations.
Alonso
A
Carrasco-Labra
Romina
R
Brignardello-Petersen
Michael
M
Glick
Gordon H
GH
Guyatt
Ignacio
I
Neumann
Amir
A
Azarpazhooh
D003729:Dental Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
Clinical practice guidelines; GRADE approach; evidence-based dentistry; patients’ values and preferences; quality of evidence; recommendation; strength of recommendations