Evidence Drift in Early Childhood Caries Research: A Conceptual Six-Domain Causal-Translation Framework.

Researchers developed a conceptual framework to identify "evidence drift"—when findings are presented as stronger claims than the evidence supports—in early childhood caries literature, using six domains (association, mechanism, causation, consequence, disease control, and policy implementation) to classify and evaluate research claims.

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