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Preliminary Questionnaire Survey for making Clinical Practice Guidelines applying for the Magnetic Attachments - Analysis and Selection of the Clinical Questions(CQ) -
 M.Hideshima, Y.Igarashi, T.Ichikawa, J.Tanaka, T.Kochi, T.Ishigami, T.Andoh*, A.Nishiyama**
 Council for the Dental Care of the Japanese Society of Magnetic Applications in Dentistry, Section of Removable Prosthodontics*, Tempromandibular Joint and Occlusion**, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
 
 @In the era of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines (CPG) have become an integral task of each academic society, and council for the dental care of this society also performed a preliminary survey preparing for CPG for the magnetic attachments.
@ Generally the formulation of CPG consists of clinical questions (CQ) and corresponding answers which were synthetically recommended by evidences from the concerning articles, doctorsf skill and patients conditions. Therefore the committee sent preliminary questionnaires for CQ by E-mail to the present and former council members of this society. The form of CQ was provided with the word Patient, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome with some sample questions.
  As a result, above 70 answers and more than 100 CQ were returned. We classified every CQ into 5 categories according to their application. The ratio of the numbers of each category was 14%; implants, 39%; type of defect, 9%; occlusion, 21%; arrangement and configuration, 18%; management or others respectively.
  The committee is planning to increase surveyed clinicians and select exact and typical CQ for CPG according to the GRADE group system.