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Individualised oral care plan based on a multidisciplinary assessment vs usual care: Plaque

Population
Adults aged 22 to 57 years with mixed levels of ID; setting residential
Intervention
Individualised oral care plan based on a multidisciplinary assessment
Comparison
usual care
Outcome
Plaque

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Individualised oral care plan based on a multidisciplinary assessment vs Usual care (regular oral hygiene care following the institution's standard guidelines)
Plaque (medium term) · Adults aged 22 to 57 years with mixed levels of ID; setting residential · Medium term (6 weeks to 12 months)
Oral hygiene interventions for people with intellectual disabilities (2019) · Cochrane All outcomes
Individualised oral care plan vs usual care. Subjective Oral Hygiene Rating scale 1-5 and Improvement Differential, mean 12 months; SOHR 2.97 (intervention) vs 3.10 (control); improvement differential 38% vs 5%; 79…1 study · 79 participantsVery low

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Oral hygiene interventions for people with intellectual disabilities
2019 · Cochrane All outcomes
2019-02Not listedNot assessed
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.