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Government Resources
Agency for Healthcare Research
& Quality
- EPC
Evidence Reports
Browse its Oral & Gastrointestinal section for reports
from its Evidence-based Practice Centers.
Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention
Google U.S. Government Search
Limits searches to the .gov and .mil domains.
Healthy
People 2010, Oral Health Focus Area 21
This chapter is part of the national prevention agenda.
Mass.Gov
MEDLINEplus
National Cancer Institute
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Search or browse by
- Disease/Condition: click Diseases then Stomatognathic
Diseases
- Treatments & Interventions: Dentistry
National
Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research: Statistics
& Data
National
Oral Health Information Clearinghouse
NOHIC lists resources for special-care patients, as well as other publications available free-of-charge.
Oral
Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General
National Associations & Organizations
American Association
of Public Health Dentistry
American
Dental Association
Cochrane
Oral Health Group
Produces systematic reviews which primarily include all randomised
control trials (RCTs) of oral health on topics which include
the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of oral, dental
and craniofacial diseases and disorders.
National Center
for Fluoridation Policy & Research
Contains information on all aspects of community water fluoridation,
both national and international. Additional information available
with free membership registration.
Tufts Resources
Guides
Databases
- Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews
Search using keywords. Contains full text of their systematic
reviews and protocols of meta-analyses in progress, which
provide discussions, implications for practice and implications
for research summarizing the findings of meta-analyses of
the evidence. Includes systematic reviews by the Cochrane
Oral Health Group.
- LexisNexis Academic
includes articles from major national and regional newspapers,
statistical information, and country and state profiles.
Major source for federal case law and statutes, the U.S.
Code, law reviews, and state legal research.
- Medical News includes dental topics.
- Select Medical under Academic Search
Forms, then Medical News.
- Complete and submit the Guided News Search
form.
- Select Expanded List tab to browse hits
in context.
- Major Papers
- Select News under Academic Search Forms.
- Select General News and Major Papers
for the top two boxes.
- Complete and submit the Guided News Search
form.
- Select Expanded List tab to browse hits
in context.
- Tables Base Edition
- Select Statistical under Search for
Other Information.
- Enter keyword phrase or Boolean combination: e.g.
(dent! OR oral) AND (health! OR
condition OR care).
- Or select Subject List and D
for
- Dental condition
- Dentists & dentistry.
- At first, search all available dates and do not
limit by area.
- See Database
Searching Tips for more help.
- MEDLINE [Ovid] or
PubMed
- Subheadings
- Epidemiology can be attached to any Medical
Subject Heading [MeSH] in the Stomatognathic
Diseases tree.
- Prevention & Control can be attached
to any disease MeSH.
- Statistics & Numerical Data can be
attached MeSH for procedures, groups and services.
- MeSH for Dental Epidemiology
suggests MeSH and subheadings and discusses how to apply
them
- For further help, see How
to Find Journal Articles via Ovid MEDLINE.
Journals
- Journal of evidence-based dental practice
- Electronic journals
- See our Dentistry
Guide for further details.
Texts
- Epidemiology
- Epidemiology kept simple: an introduction to traditional
and modern epidemiology
5th Floor WA 105 G383 2003
- Epidemiology
InfoCirc Desk WA 105 G661e 2004
- Methods in observational epidemiology
5th Floor WA 950 K29m 1996
- Clinical epidemiology: The study of the outcome
of illness
5th Floor WA 950 W431c 1996
- Evidence-based dentistry
- Statistics & research design
- Designing clinical research
Reserve WA 950 D457 2001
- Health and numbers : basic biostatistical methods
Reserve WA 950 L433h 1995
- Encyclopedia of biostatistics
Reference WA 900 E56 1998
- A study guide to epidemiology and biostatistics
5th Floor WA 18.2 M891s 2000
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