Dear Karen
Well done for braving the e-b-h- list - it's good to hear from new people,
especially those who are undertaking something as ambitious as a systematic
review.
I suspect that people will find it easier to respond to your query (and
you'll probably find the review easier to do!!) if you can formulate some
more precise questions. You may well have done that, of course, but you
didn't tell us what they were.
I personally am a great fan of the Scott Richardson '3-part question'
approach in which questions are presented in terms of population -
intervention [+control] - outcome (therapy or prevention), or
population - exposure [+control exposure] - outcome (prognosis)
It's often not at all easy to get from the stage of wanting (or being
assigned) to do a systematic review on a really broad topic (such as oral
hygiene) and getting a series of clean, answerable and prioritised questions
(such as, "In patients in on a high dependency hospital ward in the USA,
what is the efficacy of mouthwash A compared to mouthwash B in preventing
complication X?"). Perhaps you should let us know how far you've got with
generating questions like this - and/or the uncertainties you've met in your
efforts so far. ((I may not join in the debate for a couple of weeks - am
going on holiday!))
Good luck!
trish greenhalgh
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Sent: 29 July 1999 12:02
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Subject: Systematic Review of Oral Hygiene
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I am in the initial stages of a systematic review of oral hygiene.
Therefore, I am interested in any information, suggestions etc,
that could facilitate my research.
Please forward any advice, useful information, addresses, web-sites,
contacts, etc, etc.
Thanks
Karen Blakey
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