An AMSTAR assessment of the methodological quality of systematic reviews of oral healthcare interventions published in the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS)

• Main Authors: Patrick Sequeira-Byron (Author), Zbys Fedorowicz (Author), Vanitha A. Jagannath (Author), Mohammad Owaise Sharif (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews are not an assembly of anecdotes but a distillation of current best available evidence on a particular topic and as such have an important role to play in evidence-based healthcare. A substantial proportion of these systematic reviews focus on interventions, and are ab...