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An Implementation Strategy for the Adoption of an Evidence-Based Guideline for Pit-and-Fissure Sealants: Using a Framework From Organizational Development
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Deliberative Loop for Pit-and-Fissure Sealants. Completed, enrolled 896 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The purpose of this implementation science study is to determine whether Deliberative Loops are effective in increasing providers' adherence to the non-cavitated caries component of the American Dental Association's pit-and-fissure sealant evidence-based clinical practice guideline. The investigators use a stepped wedge design to randomly assign dental clinics to the Deliberative Loop intervention. In a Deliberative Loop, stakeholders receive background information, participate in a facilitated discussion, and share their views with leadership. The Deliberative Loop intervention is designed to help stakeholders form informed opinions; in this study, stakeholders will be forming informed opinions about the implementation interventions they think will increase their clinic's adherence to the guideline. The investigators hypothesize that compared with the pre-intervention period, following the intervention, providers will place or treatment plan sealants for significantly more occlusal non-cavitated carious lesions.
Study Details
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Interventions
The investigators will give background information to the stakeholders before they engage in the Deliberative session. Stakeholders from a given clinic will come together for a Deliberative session (i.e., facilitated conversation), enabling them to hear the full range of perspectives held by their fellow colleagues and to share their own perspective regarding how best to implement the guideline in small-group discussions. Following the Deliberative session, each stakeholder will have the opportunity to record their opinions regarding possible implementation interventions. The investigators will share these opinions with the clinic's decision-makers to help guide their decision-making about which implementation interventions to deploy. If a stakeholder happens to be absent the day of their clinic's Deliberative session, they will still have the opportunity to complete the survey.