Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context) vs No comparator
Factors of choice influencing dental treatment decisions (overall) · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
A wide range of factors (n=101 in three categories) influence patients' dental treatment decisions; the review identified and synthesized them qualitatively without grading certainty (ungraded).
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- Decision-making regarding dental treatments - What factors matter from patients' perspective? A systematic review. 2025 All outcomesDental practices, clinics/hospitals, academic and community settings; 49 countriesn=101 factors of choice identified across 233 articles, grouped into three categories: (I) Dentist & dental institution (n=44 factors), (II) Patient (n=37), (III) Treatment (n=20); no effect sizes were pooled…233 studiesGRADE not reported