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Practice teams to direct website's dental research
22nd Sep 2009
A new website has been launched that aims to answer the questions members of the primary care dental team ask.
The redeveloped Shirley Glasstone Hughes Trust Fund website – www.dentistryresearch.org – puts research commissioning into the hands of dental practices allowing members of the site to vote online for questions they want answered.
The new voting system is designed so that dental teams can choose a ‘question of the month'.
Each month, the question with the most votes will form the subject of a critical appraisal of relevant literature and a short summary of conclusions drawn from existing published evidence will be posted on the website.
If there is poor or little existing evidence, the question will be a priority for research funding from the Shirley Glasstone Hughes Trust Fund.
This allows members to ensure that the research funded by the Trust is focused on issues which are relevant to practice.
Ultimately, it enables practice to be based on research evidence, which the website will present in an easy-to-access way.
Professor Liz Kay, chair of the Trustees, said: ‘It's important that dental practice is based on evidence. This exciting new feature of the Shirley Glasstone Hughes Trust Fund site enables dentists and DCPs at the frontline of patient care to direct research activity by voting for the questions they'd like to see answered. We look forward to seeing what really interests those in practice and doing our best to answer their questions, by either revealing what is already known or funding research which addresses practitioners' real issues.'
The Primary Care Dentistry Research Forum will provide guidance for funding applications later this year when the first call for research tenders is anticipated
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