A population perspective to evidence based medicine: "evidence for population health".

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Examining and addressing evidence-practice gaps in cancer care: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2014
   Pooled it
2. Interventions to Enable or Improve Evidence-Informed Decision Making in Public Health and Preventive Medicine: A Scoping Review.AJPM focus · 2026
   Review
3. Dynamics of intervention adoption, implementation, and maintenance inside organizations: The case of an obesity prevention initiative.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019
   Article
4. Impacting Pediatric Primary Care: Opportunities and Challenges for Behavioral Research in a Shifting Healthcare Landscape.Behavior analysis (Washington, D.C.) · 2019
   Article
5. Data, Information, Evidence, and Knowledge:: A Proposal for Health Informatics and Data Science.Online journal of public health informatics · 2018
   Article
6. Negotiating multisectoral evidence: a qualitative study of knowledge exchange at the intersection of transport and public health.BMC public health · 2017
   Article
7. Suggestions for the promotion of evidence-based public health in South Korea.Epidemiology and health · 2017
   Article
8. Helping to prioritise interventions for depression and schizophrenia: use of Population Impact Measures.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2006
   Article
9. Population impact of stricter adherence to recommendations for pharmacological and lifestyle interventions over one year in patients with coronary heart disease.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2005
   Article
10. Cataract surgery programmes in Africa.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2005
    Article
11. Assessing the impact of heart failure specialist services on patient populations.BMC health services research · 2004
    Article
12. Communicating risks at the population level: application of population impact numbers.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
    Review
13. Implementing guidelines in primary care: can population impact measures help?BMC public health · 2003
    Article
14. Impact numbers in health policy decisions.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2002
    Article
15. Impact of upward social mobility on population mortality: analysis with routine data.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
    Article
16. Ethical debate: Vaccination against mumps, measles, and rubella: is there a case for deepening the debate? How safe is MMR vaccine?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001
    Review
17. What is the evidence for parenting interventions offered in a Canadian community?Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
    Article
18. Completeness and accuracy of the drug treatment reporting system in Dublin, Ireland.Irish journal of medical science
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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