Summary of findings 3. Monitoring compared to no monitoring for people with serious mental illness.

Monitoring compared to no monitoring for people with serious mental illness
Patient or population: People with serious mental illness Settings: Intervention: Monitoring Comparison: No monitoring
Outcomes	Illustrative comparative risks* (95% CI)		Relative effect (95% CI)	No of Participants (studies)	Quality of the evidence (GRADE)	Comments
	Assumed risk	Corresponding risk
	No monitoring	Monitoring
Oral health: Not having seen a dentist in the past year	No study reported useable data
Oral health: Not brushing teeth twice a day
Quality of life: Chronic pain
Adverse events: Clinically important specific adverse events
Service use: Emergency medical/dental treatment
Leaving the study early	645 per 1000	690 per 1000 (645 to 735)	RR 1.07 (1.00 to 1.14)	1682 (1 study)	⊕⊕⊕⊝ moderate1
Dental state: No clinically important change in plaque index	See comment	See comment	Not estimable	0 (0)	See comment	No study reported useable data
*The basis for the assumed risk (e.g. the median control group risk across studies) is provided in footnotes. The corresponding risk (and its 95% confidence interval) is based on the assumed risk in the comparison group and the relative effect of the intervention (and its 95% CI). CI: Confidence interval; RR: Risk ratio
GRADE Working Group grades of evidence High quality: Further research is very unlikely to change our confidence in the estimate of effect. Moderate quality: Further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and may change the estimate. Low quality: Further research is very likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and is likely to change the estimate. Very low quality: We are very uncertain about the estimate.

¹Risk of bias: rated 'serious' ‐ important assumptions in the denominator data.