RinshoBase Scientific Basis

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RinshoBase is a database, developed by the Review Center for Health Science Research (RCHSR) to answer the question:

“How well do clinical indications claimed by manufacturers for their oral health care products correspond with clinical evidence?”

In order to achieve its aim RinshoBase relies on:

  1. Instructions-for-use (IFU) for oral health care products that are freely available in the public domain, provided by dental manufacturers, in line with requirements set forth by the Council of the European Communities in its Directive MDD 93/42EEC of 14 June 1993
  2. Systematic review results originally developed and continuously updated for the RinshoTrial App
    1. Mickenautsch S. The Clinical Evidence-Base Of Oral Health Care Products And The Current “Rinshotrial” App As Possible Dissemination Tool (Preprint). 2021; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34557.28642.
    2. RinshoTrial Update Notifier: https://rinshotrial.blogspot.com
  3. Clinical trial quality appraisal using the Composite Quality Score (CQS):
    1. Mickenautsch S. Are Most of the Published Clinical Trial Results in Restorative Dentistry Invalid? An Empirical Investigation. Rev Recent Clin Trials. 2020;15(2):122-130
    2. Mickenautsch S. Is the Deductive Falsification Approach a Better Basis for Clinical Trial Appraisal? Rev Recent Clin Trials. 2019;14(3):224-228.
    3. Mickenautsch S, Miletic I, Rupf S, Renteria J, Göstemeyer G. The Composite Quality Score (CQS) as screening tool for trial exclusion: Inter-rater reliability and rating time (Preprint). 2020; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26269.95205.