Organizing a Practice-based Research Group

From Volume 30, Issue 7, September 2003 | Pages 384-388

Authors

D.A. Stewardson

BDS, FDS, RCPS

Clinical Lecturer, Conservative Dentistry, University of Birmingham School of Dentistry, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.

Articles by D.A. Stewardson

P.H. Thornley

BDS, MFGDP, MGDS

General Dental Practitioner, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.

Articles by P.H. Thornley

Abstract

There is an urgent need for more dental research to come from the ‘real-life’ setting of general practice in order to complement the information arising from laboratory testing and institution-based clinical trials. This paper outlines some of the problems and opportunities encountered in undertaking research in practice, and describes the experiences of one such practice-based research group.

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