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  • Sinead Watson
    Queen's University, Belfast
  • Julie McCullan
    Queen's University, Belfast
  • Paul Brocklehurst
  • George Tsakos
    University College London
  • Richard Watt
    University College London
  • Rebecca Wassall
    University of Newcastle
  • Andrea Sherriff
    Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Sheena Ramsay
    Institute for Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
  • Anup Karki
    Public Health Wales
  • Sayaka Tada
    National University of Singapore
  • Caroline Lappin
    South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, Dundonald
  • Michael Donaldson
    Health & Social Care Board, Northern Ireland
  • Gerry McKenna

BACKGROUND: Oral healthcare service provision for dependent older adults is often poor. For dental services to provide more responsive and equitable care, evidence-based approaches are needed. To facilitate future research, the development and application of a core outcome set would be beneficial. The aim of this study is to develop a core outcome set for oral health services research involving dependent older adults.

METHODS: A multi-step process involving consensus methods and including key stakeholders will be undertaken. This will involve identifying potentially relevant outcomes through a systematic review of previous studies examining the effectiveness of strategies to prevent oral disease in dependent older adults, combined with semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders. Stakeholders will include dependent older adults, family members, carers, care-home managers, health professionals, researchers, dental commissioners and policymakers. To condense and prioritise the long list of outcomes generated by the systematic review and semi-structured interviews, a Delphi survey consisting of several rounds with key stakeholders, as mentioned above, will be undertaken. The 9-point Likert scale proposed by the GRADE Working Group will facilitate this consensus process. Following the Delphi survey, a face-to-face consensus meeting with key stakeholders will be conducted where the stakeholders will anonymously vote and decide on what outcomes should be included in the finalised core outcome set.

DISCUSSION: Developing a core set of outcomes that are clinically and patient-centred will help improve the design, conduct and reporting of oral health services research involving dependent older adults, and ultimately strengthen the evidence base for high-quality oral health care for dependent older adults.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: The study was registered with the COMET initiative on 9 January 2018 http://www.cometinitiative.org/studies/details/1081?result=true .

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