The evidence debate.

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

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

1. The highest attainable standard of evidence (HASTE) for HIV/AIDS interventions: toward a public health approach to defining evidence.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
   Pooled it
2. Evaluation of a Community-Led Intervention in South London: How Much Standardization Is Possible?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
   Article
3. A conditional model of evidence-based decision making.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2009
   Article
4. Evidence for public health decision-making: towards reliable synthesis.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2009
   Article
5. Conceptualising the policy practice and behavioural research relationship.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2008
   Article
6. Prevention of mental and behavioural disorders: implications for policy and practice.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2006
   Article
7. Integrating social theory into public health practice.American journal of public health · 2005
   Article
8. Evidence based health promotion: recollections, reflections, and reconsiderations.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2003
   Article
9. Evidence, hierarchies, and typologies: horses for courses.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2003
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions.2002

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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