title: Concordance between responses to questionnaire scenarios and actual treatment to repair or replace dental restorations in the National Dental PBRN.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To quantify the agreement between treatment recommended during hypothetical clinical scenarios and actual treatment provided in comparable clinical circumstances.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 193 practitioners in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network participated in both a questionnaire and a clinical study. The questionnaire included three hypothetical scenarios about treatment of existing restorations. Clinicians then participated in a clinical study about repair or replacement of existing restorations. We quantified the overall concordance between their questionnaire responses and what they did in actual clinical treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Practitioners who recommended repair (instead of replacement) of more scenario restorations also had higher repair percentages in clinical practice. Additionally, for each of the three hypothetical scenario restorations, practitioners who recommended repair had higher repair percentages in clinical practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The questionnaire scenarios were a valid measure of clinicians' tendency to repair or replace restorations in actual clinical practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although there was substantial variation in practitioners' tendency to repair or replace restorations, responses to questionnaire scenarios by individual practitioners were concordant with what they did in actual clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Restorative Sciences, 1919 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA. Electronic address: theaven@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Tim J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Heaven
authors.affiliation: University of Florida, Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, Room D9-6, P.O. Box 100415, Gainesville, FL 32610-0415, USA.
authors.forename: Valeria V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Gordan
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Clinical and Community Sciences, 1919 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Litaker
authors.affiliation: Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, 3800 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR 97227, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Fellows
authors.affiliation: HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, 8170 33rd Avenue South, Mail Stop 21111R, PO Box 1524, Bloomington, MN 55440-1524, USA.
authors.forename: D Brad
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Rindal
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Clinical and Community Sciences, 1919 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA.
authors.forename: Gregg H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Gilbert
mesh_terms: D000066491:Clinical Decision-Making; D018865:Dental Research / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
keywords: Decision-making; Health services research; Restoration repair/replacement