USING DENTAL PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES (dPROs) IN META-ANALYSES: A SCOPING REVIEW AND METHODOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

Dental Patient-Reported Outcomes in Endodontics - A Narrative Review

“…7 dPROs are being utilized increasingly in oral health research to explore patients' perceptions of the success and impact of dental treatments. 8 A dental patient-reported outcome measure (dPROM) is an instrument, questionnaire, scale, or survey that measures or captures dPROs. 7 The dPROM scores can be reported numerically or graphically to the clinician at chairside, 9 and variations between pre-and post-treatment dPROM ratings can be utilized to determine the outcome of treatment as well as assist patients in making more informed treatment choices.…”

Dental Patient-Reported Outcomes Update 2021

“…Aside from the above-mentioned articles on methods standardization, this Special Issue also includes two reviews that, from two different perspectives, reflect the current usage of dPROs in published dental research. Liu et al 14 performed a scoping review to identify existing methodological issues and difficulties specific to the meta-analysis (MA) of dPROs. After literature searches and study screening, the author team found 34 articles that met their eligibility criteria.…”

“…Twenty-two of these articles were systematic reviews that had MA of dPROs and 12 were methodological studies regarding metaanalysis of dPROs. Based on these, Liu et al 14 identified issues from 5 main aspects including synthesizing results from different scales, interpretation of standardized mean differences, MA with few studies, MA of studies with different cut-off values, as well as systematic errors resulted from different instruments. The authors then provided recommendations for future MA of dPROs according to the identified issues.…”