Journal article
Designing a safety checklist for dental implant placement: a Delphi study
The Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), Vol.145(2), pp.131-140
02/2014
DOI: 10.14219/jada.2013.15
PMID: 24487604
Abstract
Complications during and after dental implant placement can be a hindrance to successful treatment. Checklists are emerging as useful tools in error reduction in various fields. The authors selected a Delphi panel to explore the appropriate clinical practices involved in implant placement, with the objective of formulating a safety checklist that would aid in reducing errors.
The authors administered a Delphi method survey to an expert panel of 24 board-certified periodontists to determine if consensus existed regarding the critical steps involved in implant placement. They defined consensus as 90 percent agreement among participants. Using the Delphi data, the authors designed a safety checklist for implant placement.
The panelists generated 20 consensus statements regarding essential steps in implant placement. The authors divided the statements into preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases. To determine the rationale for consensus decisions, the authors conducted a thematic qualitative analysis of responses to all open-ended questionnaire items, asking panel members how or why a particular procedure was performed.
The panelists reached a consensus regarding the steps they considered critical in implant placement. Further research is needed to assess the acceptance and effectiveness of this type of checklist in a clinical setting. Practical Implications. The authors developed a checklist that may be useful in reducing errors in placement of dental implants. If effective, this checklist ultimately will aid in minimizing risk and increasing implant success rates, especially for inexperienced practitioners, dental students, surgical residents and dental implant trainees (that is, dentists undergoing training to place implants through continuing education courses).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Designing a safety checklist for dental implant placement: a Delphi study
- Creators
- Adam Christman - Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisStuart Schrader - Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisVanchit John - Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisSusan Zunt - Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisGerardo Maupome - Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisSivaraman Prakasam - Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), Vol.145(2), pp.131-140
- DOI
- 10.14219/jada.2013.15
- PMID
- 24487604
- ISSN
- 0002-8177
- eISSN
- 1943-4723
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2014
- Academic Unit
- Periodontics
- Record Identifier
- 9984446522702771
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