The Science of Research Synthesis in Clinical Decision-Making -- Introduction: Research Synthesis in Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making -- Overview, Strengths, and Limitations of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses -- Understanding and Interpreting Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Results -- Making Evidence-Based Decisions -- Making Evidence-Based Decisions in Nursing -- A Model for Implementing Evidence-Based Decisions in Dental Practice -- Evidence-Based Decisions in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Cardiac Disease -- Bringing Evidence Basis to Decision Making in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Prakriti (Constitution) Analysis in Ayurveda -- Evidence-Based Clinical Decisions in Oral Surgery -- Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Clinical Outcomes -- Evidence-Based Issues in Maxillofacial Trauma -- Strengths and Limitations of the Evidence-Based Movement Aimed to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Dentistry and Oral Surgery -- Evidence-Based Decision for Pharmacological Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease and Alcohol Dependence -- Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, a Bibliometric Evidence-Based Approach to Analysis -- The Efficacy of Horizontal and Vertical Bone Augmentation Procedures for Dental Implants: A Cochrane Systematic Review -- Conclusion: Toward Optimization of the Evidence-Based Paradigm in Medicine and Dentistry -- Evidence-Based Medicine: What does it Mean and Where Are We Going? -- Future Avenues of Research Synthesis for Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Making.

Health care is witnessing an explosion of fundamental, clinical and translational research evidence. The emerging paradigm of evidence-based health care rests on the judicious integration of the patient needs/wants, the provider's expertise, and the best available research evidence in the treatment plan. The purpose of this book is to discuss the promise and the limitations of incorporating the best available evidence in clinical practice. It seeks to characterize and define how best available research evidence can be used in clinical practice and to what respect it applies to current public health issues.