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Commentary: Incorporating Patient‐Reported Outcomes in Periodontal Clinical Trials
Author(s) -
McGuire Michael K.,
Scheyer E. Todd,
Gwaltney Chad
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of periodontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.036
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1943-3670
pISSN - 0022-3492
DOI - 10.1902/jop.2014.130693
Subject(s) - periodontology , medicine , clinical trial , randomized controlled trial , intervention (counseling) , dentistry , medline , physical therapy , evidence based dentistry , alternative medicine , surgery , pathology , nursing , political science , law
The authors review patient‐reported outcome (PRO) metrics for dentistry, and in particular, periodontics. The PRO commentary for periodontics includes a review of split‐mouth, randomized, controlled clinical trial results that specifically tracked pain at different sites over time after intervention and provided guidelines for peak pain time points and evidence for referred pain assessment when studying soft tissue augmentation procedures. Both the questions that are asked of patients and the timing of those questions are important study design considerations. The authors suggest PRO methodology for periodontal clinical trials that can be used to identify information important to patients and clinicians.