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ReviewJournal of epidemiology and community health2002

Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions.

L Rychetnik, M Frommer, P Hawe, A Shiell

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Review in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 312 papers, 34 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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312citing papers in PubMed, 34 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

312 citing papers in PubMed, 34 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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252 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

L RychetnikEffective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia. lucier@med.usyd.edu.au
M Frommer
P Hawe
A Shiell

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health interventions tend to be complex, programmatic, and context dependent. The evidence for their effectiveness must be sufficiently comprehensive to encompass that complexity. This paper asks whether and to what extent evaluative research on public health interventions can be adequately appraised by applying well established criteria for judging the quality of evidence in clinical practice. It is adduced that these criteria are useful in evaluating some aspects of evidence. However, there are other important aspects of evidence on public health interventions that are not covered by the established criteria. The evaluation of evidence must distinguish between the fidelity of the evaluation process in detecting the success or failure of an intervention, and the success or failure of the intervention itself. Moreover, if an intervention is unsuccessful, the evidence should help to determine whether the intervention was inherently faulty (that is, failure of intervention concept or theory), or just badly delivered (failure of implementation). Furthermore, proper interpretation of the evidence depends upon the availability of descriptive information on the intervention and its context, so that the transferability of the evidence can be determined. Study design alone is an inadequate marker of evidence quality in public health intervention evaluation.

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Evidence-Based MedicineHealth Services ResearchHumansProgram EvaluationPublic Health PracticeTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID11812811
PMCPMC1732065

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