DHAT-delivered dental care vs Not applicable (single-group prevalence): Clinical care quality
- Population
- Alaska dental health aide therapists
- Intervention
- DHAT-delivered dental care
- Comparison
- Not applicable (single-group prevalence)
- Outcome
- Clinical care quality
Four newly trained DHATs met stated clinical care standards in a qualitative evaluation, without a GRADE rating.
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
DHAT-delivered dental care vs No comparison group Clinical care quality · Alaska dental health aide therapists · 9 months, Alaska Four newly trained DHATs met stated clinical care standards in a qualitative evaluation, without a GRADE rating. Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions… (2013) All outcomes | Four practising DHATs met Indian Health Service guidelines for record keeping and standards of care for cavity preparation and restoration, patient management, and patient safety. | 1 study | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions and a case study on multilevel… 2013 All outcomes | October 5, 2012 | 11 | Critically Low / Critically Low |
Studies behind the findings
The primary studies the full-text reviews tie to this outcome. Reviews with headline outcomes only do not list them here.
- Fiset 2005 · included by 1 of these review
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.