An Innovative Approach to Disseminate Dental Research

描述(由申请人提供)：龋齿和牙周病是美国最常见的两种基于感染的牙科疾病。大多数牙科实践都围绕着预防这些疾病的努力或减轻其影响的治疗。大量证据表明，牙医在治疗龋齿和牙周病时，往往不会使用最有效的治疗方法。我们推测，这不是因为他们没有接触到循证指南，而是因为他们继续表达他们在牙科学校学到的实践模式-即使他们不再被认为是最佳实践。该项目将为牙医提供模拟患者，提出有效治疗的循证挑战，并内置特定于治疗的决策支持。我们将HealthPartners牙医分配到常规护理和模拟组，并在模拟组接触到基于证据的模拟和反馈支持后衡量他们的治疗计划模式。我们期望发现，暴露在模拟遭遇中的牙医将展示出与模拟中练习的成功模式更一致的练习模式。在进行这个项目的同时，我们还将计划将模拟工具分发到更广泛的牙科社区。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dental caries and periodontal disease are two of the most common infection-based dental conditions in the United States. Most dental practice revolves around efforts to prevent these conditions or treatments to mitigate their effects. Ample evidence suggests that dentists often do not use the most effective treatment methods when treating caries and periodontal disease. We postulate that this is not because they have not been exposed to evidence-based guidelines but rather that they continue to express the practice patterns they learned in dental school - even if they are no longer considered best practices. This project will provide dentists with simulated patients posing evidence-based challenges of effective treatment and build in treatment-specific decision support. We will assign HealthPartners dentists into a usual-care and simulation group and measure their treatment-planning patterns after the simulation group is exposed to evidence-based simulations and feedback support. We expect to find that the dentists exposed to the simulation encounters will exhibit practice patterns more congruent with successful patterns practiced in the simulation. While conducting this project, we will also plan the distribution of the simulation tool to the broader dental community.